Writing Fillers for Print and Profit Writing fillers is a good way to break into print for the first time or to open doors at a new market. At one time, magazines only used fillers to fill up blank space at the end of a page. Now almost all periodicals use fillers in some form and they're used as regular features in some magazines. Poems, recipes, craft ideas, quotes, cartoons, household hints, puzzles, and jokes are all forms of fillers. Short prose of 50-500 words is also used as filler in some magazines.
Length depends on the magazine so study their guidelines.
For thirteen years, I worked in a bakery as a cake decorator. I used my experience to write a recipe for decorating a Christmas wreath cake. Woman's Touch, a Christian woman's magazine, published it in a December issue. All of these ideas can be turned into short prose items for magazine fillers. One afternoon in the middle of August, I locked myself out of the house.