Writing As A Career Choice Can Be Very Rewarding

Writing as a career can involve a whole range of activities such as writing articles, or writing reports or even writing full-blown informational books and novels. If you want the easiest approach where you can make money quickly, writing reports and publishing short articles may be your answer.

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When you choose creative writing as a Career you may be letting yourself in for a very difficult way of making a living. However if you persevere, you can make it work for you as I did. My great passions are writing content for this website which has around 400 pages, and writing CVs and Resumes for my clients.

Dreaming of writing a best selling book or novel is delicious, but the reality is often far removed from that dream.

Apart from the need to produce creative output regularly and even when you have all the subject knowledge, characterization, plotting, flair and word-craft skill, you will still find that writing as a career is only successful for a small number of authors. To help you learn how to write better in your new writing career please visit How To Write Anything.

Most authors will struggle to get their work produced and published and if you have already chosen writing as a career then you will recognize the difficulties associated with this career choice.

The familiar feeling when the rejection slip arrives is almost enough to bring this exercise to an end, but as every author will agree writing can be very rewarding and satisfying to produce either a well constructed novel or an authoritative work on a subject close to your heart.

So you really only have two choices:

• You can give up altogether
  
• Or you can find another way

Which as most authors who have chosen writing as a career will say actually amounts to no choice at all!

You aren't going to give up so you must find another way. Now let's look at what you can do about it.

If you haven't already written your book don't let the potential difficulties put you off - go ahead and write it; the problem is not with you but with the response from the publisher or editor.

Even if they reject your book, it doesn't mean its no good, (but you knew that anyway) it just means they didn't like it or it didn't fit in with their idea of what sells.

Self-publishing is the answer and it can be easier than you think to make writing as a career come true.

If you have already written your book and you have hit the rejection stonewall, don't give up, you have produced something from your heart and many people will like it enough to buy it.

Self-publishing is again the answer and it can be easier than you think.

Let me tell you what I do and show you the tools I use.

I didn't choose writing as a career, it chose me! But writing is what I do, whether it's in the writing of the content on these web-pages or because I am a Career Coach as well, in the production and publishing of e-books on mainly career-based subjects.

You can view one of my very simple ebooks here which just shows the very simplest form of a published e-book about job loss and anxiety.

Now take a look at this one on Networking, which is longer and more detailed and shows how easily you can use colour, different font sizes and styles as well as chapter headings, lists and bullet points. Although I have chosen not to use page numbering it is very easy to insert page numbers.

What You Need to Make a Success of Writing as a Career

1. Your writing ability (which we will take as read);
   
2. Pride in the value of your work;
   
3. A willingness to learn and try another approach;
   
4. The right tools to produce your work;
   
5. Persistence and determination;
   
6. Readiness to follow marketing guidance

With all of that you will soon be able to say that writing as a career was a sound decision - you will not only have written and produced your own e-book, but you will have published it and what's more actually sold some copies!!

If you still want to go down the traditional route of producing a physical book or novel, it's much easier when you know the market is ready for you.

So Let's Get Started

You can easily polish up your skills with a writing course which will iron out any difficulties you may have had. It doesn't have to be a book, it could be a report or other business correspondence. Perhaps you are engaged in technical writing on some issue that you have knowledge of.

It is very simple - all that stands between you and your success as a published writer is the lack of the required tools. If you take a look at either of the examples of my ebooks above you will note they are in Portable Document Format (.pdf). This is the most popular format for ebooks because it can be viewed on any PC or Apple Mac and the ebook will always look the same. other forms of presentation used by ebook compilers are often executable files (.exe) which can only be viewed on Windows based systems i.e. PCs and cannot be viewed on Macs so you limit the audience.

The software to produce .exe based ebooks is also usually fairly expensive for example Ebook Gold which is one of the best professional e-book compilers on the market costs $97.00 which is quite an expense when you are setting out.

Equally the top rated PDF creator Adobe Acrobat will cost at least $129.00 but you can get the reader free if you don't already have it by clicking here.

However what you need when starting out is to keep the costs down so I recommend you download the suite of tools at Open Office which is completely free and every bit as good as MS Office - you can export to PDF with one click of your mouse.

You've Written Your Book - Now What?

To make a success of writing as a career you need to inform your audience about your book and get them to buy it.

First of all how do they find out about it?

I have found that the best way to publicize your new ebook is to write a short summary article (about 500 - 600 words) and submit this to an article directory.

Webmasters and publishers are always on the lookout for interesting new material this is the easiest way to get your book noticed with no cost attached.

You can see what I mean by looking at my articles at Ezine Articles where my articles have been published on average 450 times each. You can also 'blog' about your ebook with a free account at Blogger.com

You have now conquered the two basics of production and promotion, although there are other ways to promote your ebook this will get you off to a great start.

Your audience must now be able to buy your book and the simplest way for you is to give them a digital download from a website.

Of course you will also need to be able to accept payments on-line. Don't worry about expensive merchant accounts just get your free PayPal account and start taking debit and credit card payments immediately.

Now to show you how easy it all is you can download a PDF version of this page here. You will note the use of colour plus text links and full URL inks all of which are active when connected to the internet. It is a great illustration of what you can do with the right tools and you can keep it and resell it if you wish, with my complements.

What About Freelance Writing?

Here's a question: What does it take to be a success as a freelance writer? For the most part, people who are a success and make big money as a freelance writer share 3 common traits:

1. They treat it as a business - This is not a hobby or something to play with. They have the dedication to apply their craft.

2. They write for lucrative markets - they seek out lucrative markets... find out their needs and wants and make it available.

3. They have excellent communication skills - I don't mean their skill to write. I mean their skill with customer communication. Happy customers are profitable customers.

If you've got these three traits going for you, then it should be easy for you to make a 6-figure income as a freelance writer. Of course there are no guarantees, but many people have done just that. Now, the big questions are...

• How Do I Find And Use These Guarded Secret Tactics?

• Where Do I Find The Lucrative Markets?

• How Do I Get Assignments?

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Other pages in this Writing and Career Change Section:

eBook Marketing | eBooks Online | Write Your eBook | Writing As A Career | Self Publishing | Novel Writing | Proposal Writing | Writing Jobs

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