Essays up my sleeve

I need your input on some pitches.

I appreciate you, friends. Ultimately, I care about your readership the most because, by subscribing, you’ve shown you care about my writing more than the masses that skim my elsewhere-published essays. But this week, I don’t have an essay for you. I wanted to make it up to you by inviting you into the process of my freelance pitching.

These are five pieces I’m developing to pitch elsewhere. Comment the number of the one you would be most interested in reading.

5 Developing Essay

What my braincells look like 24/7 while I’m working on an essay.

1. Don’t romanticize your life—Re-enchant the world. (Instead of looking inward, we must look outward for happiness.)

Romanticizing one’s life, also referred to as “main character energy,” is a trend that encourages women to take delight in humdrum tasks like breakfast, bathing, and bedtime by incorporating romantic elements like croissants, bathbombs, and music and viewing the world through deliberately rose-tinted glasses. I’m criticizing this movement for its unsustainability, superficiality, and ostrich-like mentality and suggesting an alternative.

2. Cleaning for the megarich showed me the real reason Americans hate the top 1% (Mind the gap—it’s very wide.)

The anger we feel at the rich doesn’t stem from some real moral failure on their part—that they’re corrupt or selfish or power-tripping jerks—but from the uncrossable abyss their wealth creates between their lives and the lives of normal people. This is unsavory in a democracy.

3. I dumped my toxic ex, Skincare Products, to take care of me. (This is your sign to start choosing connection over consumerism in your health journey.)

On our tendency to start with surface-level solutions for health-level, or even soul-level, problems. Telling my own skincare story.

4. George Floyd and The Boston Massacre (How does an ordinary act of violence become the rallying cry for a revolution?)

How an ordinary act of violence can become the rallying cry for a revolution. Numerous men like George Floyd experience police violence each year—so how did he become a martyr with shrines and murals across America? The Boston Massacre was not a massacre by a long shot. Five people died, and the poor British soldiers were just defending themselves against an angry mob. But both events are in the history books.

5. Like Poison Ivy & Virginia Creeper (Eden’s Curse on man and woman is the beating heart of today’s gender war)

An analysis of God’s curse on Adam and Eve and how we see that reflected in the Red Pill and feminist movements.

After Adam and Eve disobeyed, God did not punish them with meaningless suffering. Instead, he cursed the two domains of human activity that ensure the continuance of life on earth—eating and childbirth. By cursing life-giving activities, God ensured that when humanity experienced the pain of punishment, it would also experience the hope of productive labor. Men sweat in the fields, but at the end of their labor, they eat their fill of delicious food. Women groan in the birth room, but at the end of their labors, they caress the soft skin of a newborn baby.

The greatest demonic triumph would be to take away the fruit of each sex’s labors, destroying the productivity of the pain and turning it into meaningless suffering. Now, that’s the definition of Hell.

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Successful pitch example?

Also—would any of you freelancers or freelance-curious people like me to post one of my successful pitches so you can see what worked for me? Let me know if that would be helpful.

Cheers,

Amelia