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. I'll explain further on how to do this.

Are you over 50 and looking for a job? Because if you are, writing is one of the most satisfying and popular ways to create a new income.

Start by writing about your career - if you have an interesting career change story, that will inform or inspire my readers please go to career change stories and add your contribution. If you can write between 500 and 800 words your story will be featured and you will receive credit as the author. But please ensure it is your work and it is original and unpublished; this could be one step towards writing as a career.

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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 500 pages, and writing CVs and Resumes for my clients.

If you would like to help people find jobs by writing their CV, you might be interested to read about the way I can help you to set up your own CV writing business.

Why Not Use Your Knowledge To Write CVs?

With the job losses being forecast, more people are in greater need of a good CV and with your writing ability you can help out easily.

Starting your own CV writing business is a home based enterprise that you can easily start for next to nothing that can grow into a full time enterprise in a very short time. What makes it particularly interesting is that you don't need any special experience, knowledge or education to become a home based CV writer, but if you have some knowledge of how a good CV should look, you can build a very profitable business.

People who can make a success of this type of enterprise are those who are adept with words, have some knowledge of what different jobs entail and preferably have some experience in business to create a confident approach for your clients. The most important aspect, and the most easily learned, is an awareness of the general format of a modern CV, plus the ability to keep up to date with new approaches to CV writing, often brought about by recruitment consultants, in order to successfully develop a CV writing business and start writing as a career.

Writing A Best Seller...

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...?

Self-publishing may be 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.

So, what to do if you are planning to self publish in the near future? If you have decided to promote and sell the book yourself, you will need to take advantage of technology to get the word out. Every author should seriously consider owning a website, because in today’s market you’re invisible to the outside world without one. Just about every company or person selling or promoting anything, has a web page and address on the internet.

Now let's say that you want to publish information about growing vegetables month by month. You have all the knowledge and tips to pass on - don't you think you could reach a bigger audience more quickly if you made a website with pages on each monthly topic and each vegetable? The only thing stopping you is doubt about your ability to make the website work. With the SBI! tools I use, that's all taken care of.

You Should Have A Website

Many of the book publishing companies will 'help' you by offering you the chance to have your own website. They make this sound tempting by saying you will have your own URL (your address on the web), owned by you and you will have a:

• home page
• contact page
• about me
• about my book
• a chapter available for download
• order my book page.

I agree that you should have all of that, but typically for a 5 or 6 page website which you have no ability to edit once set up, they will charge you in the region of £299 - £399 which is very expensive when you consider the limitations.

A better suggestion would be to keep everything under your own control and get yourself a professional website package, like the one I use for this website which allows you as many pages as you would ever want, gives you your own unique URL and helps you with creating the site. You could add as many future books as you wish, but best of all it allows you a genuine opportunity to discover whether other people are interested in your book, before you decide to go into print.

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.

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

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 and is not the best way to go.

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.

Other pages in this Writing and Career Change Section:

Write Your eBook | Writing As A Career | Proposal Writing | Career Blogging

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