This is a basic book about how to make a living as a writer. It's not about how to learn to write a book, an essay, fiction, grammar, etc. If you want knowledge on that, either refer to my Language-Arts Superbook, Book 1 of my education superbooks or go to #808 at your local library.
If you want to learn computer, internet and word processing, try #004-005 at the library.
Writing as a business to earn money is not the romantic dream that you see in just about every second or third made-for-TV movie where one of the protagonists is a writer who seems to live a dreamy, deep, romantic, advanced, cool lifestyle.
Writing to earn a living is hard work if you plan on selling your work to publishers who will resell it. If you plan to do it all yourself, hustle for writing contracts for functional work in the business world, self-publish and market your own work. I feel you have a better chance than people writing novels and nonfiction books hoping to sell them to a big publisher.
It's just too damn hard. The world already has way too many novels, nonfiction stories and even practical books in my opinion. Sure you get a few people who fluke out like the Harry Potter stories and a few authors like Stephen King and John Grisham but a lot of this is luck.
They were lucky that somebody from a publishing house decided to hype them up as the fresh new flavor of the month and kept running with it all the way to the bank.
I don't feel the Harry Potter stories are superior to other fantasy kids' stories. I don't feel that any writer currently on any bestseller list has a special gift more advanced than several thousand pretty good undiscovered writers out there so my point is simple.
Succeeding as a fiction writer is at least 80% marketing. Succeeding in nonfiction has almost the same odds because there is so much competition. Even if you have the best job book out there like I believe I have, other job books sell more because the writers hype themselves up, have marketing campaigns, do media interviews and radio shows, etc.
Nowadays, it’s all about your platform to the big publishing companies which means how many followers do you have on youtube, facebook, twitter, etc. They don’t care if you have good material to help people, they care about your fanbase.
Don't write unless you love it, unless it's something you feel you must do from your soul, unless it's an act that you need to do almost everyday to release some angst within you in order to keep you inspired about your life.
Don't try to imitate the commercial stuff out there that's currently hyped up as hot. Try to develop your own style and tell it your own way regardless of what it is, fiction, nonfiction or practical.
Don't be phony. Don't say you're trying to help people by telling your story when it's really a story of an egotistical person looking for fame and fortune. I'm tired of all these phonies writing their little egotistical books about themselves, saying they're trying to help people through their story. What they're really trying to do is get famous and make money.
There are tons of these stupid books on the market all the way from some kid who won some TV idol contest who wrote a book as he says to help people see how nerds who were bullied in school can grow up to become something (a pop culture singer which is something the world needs like a hole in the head) then there was the girl who wrote a book about her route to be a hip-hop dancer as a cautionary tale as she says but I say it was just about her trying to make some money by exploiting the so-called lurid world of hip-hop.
These are not great stories. They're trashy pop culture garbage. I want stories about inspiration, challenge, beauty, originality, mysticism, transcendence and toughness not more silly books by flakes trying to hype up some aspect of the pop culture world.
I presume that avid readers read because they want some quality entertainment,
If you want to learn computer, internet and word processing, try #004-005 at the library.
Writing as a business to earn money is not the romantic dream that you see in just about every second or third made-for-TV movie where one of the protagonists is a writer who seems to live a dreamy, deep, romantic, advanced, cool lifestyle.
Writing to earn a living is hard work if you plan on selling your work to publishers who will resell it. If you plan to do it all yourself, hustle for writing contracts for functional work in the business world, self-publish and market your own work. I feel you have a better chance than people writing novels and nonfiction books hoping to sell them to a big publisher.
It's just too damn hard. The world already has way too many novels, nonfiction stories and even practical books in my opinion. Sure you get a few people who fluke out like the Harry Potter stories and a few authors like Stephen King and John Grisham but a lot of this is luck.
They were lucky that somebody from a publishing house decided to hype them up as the fresh new flavor of the month and kept running with it all the way to the bank.
I don't feel the Harry Potter stories are superior to other fantasy kids' stories. I don't feel that any writer currently on any bestseller list has a special gift more advanced than several thousand pretty good undiscovered writers out there so my point is simple.
Succeeding as a fiction writer is at least 80% marketing. Succeeding in nonfiction has almost the same odds because there is so much competition. Even if you have the best job book out there like I believe I have, other job books sell more because the writers hype themselves up, have marketing campaigns, do media interviews and radio shows, etc.
Nowadays, it’s all about your platform to the big publishing companies which means how many followers do you have on youtube, facebook, twitter, etc. They don’t care if you have good material to help people, they care about your fanbase.
Don't write unless you love it, unless it's something you feel you must do from your soul, unless it's an act that you need to do almost everyday to release some angst within you in order to keep you inspired about your life.
Don't try to imitate the commercial stuff out there that's currently hyped up as hot. Try to develop your own style and tell it your own way regardless of what it is, fiction, nonfiction or practical.
Don't be phony. Don't say you're trying to help people by telling your story when it's really a story of an egotistical person looking for fame and fortune. I'm tired of all these phonies writing their little egotistical books about themselves, saying they're trying to help people through their story. What they're really trying to do is get famous and make money.
There are tons of these stupid books on the market all the way from some kid who won some TV idol contest who wrote a book as he says to help people see how nerds who were bullied in school can grow up to become something (a pop culture singer which is something the world needs like a hole in the head) then there was the girl who wrote a book about her route to be a hip-hop dancer as a cautionary tale as she says but I say it was just about her trying to make some money by exploiting the so-called lurid world of hip-hop.
These are not great stories. They're trashy pop culture garbage. I want stories about inspiration, challenge, beauty, originality, mysticism, transcendence and toughness not more silly books by flakes trying to hype up some aspect of the pop culture world.
I presume that avid readers read because they want some quality entertainment,
