Advice Needed

So I want to start writing a column for a newspaper.... how do I go about doing that?? I honestly have no idea and I should have done this a long long time ago in college and perhaps I would actually have a clue what to do. I think I'm going to write an amazing letter to the freelance section of a couple newspapers and once they read them they are going to BEG me to write for them on a regular basis. But if anyone has any ideas I'd be more than happy to try them out too.