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How New Freelance Writers Become Published Writers
Fast!
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Many
new writers believe the beginning writer's world is fraught with
difficulties and obstacles that he or she must overcome before ever
creating work worthy of publication. How very wrong they are
because, using a few simple techniques, virtually anyone can become
a published writer just a month or so into their writing careers.
These tips will help pave your way to a profitable writing career:
* Don’t dedicate your efforts to
one form of writing, certainly not very early in your career, or you
risk missing out on the very many other writing categories that
might prove more challenging, more financially rewarding, a more
likely proposition for an early break into print. Let us consider a
few of the many avenues open to the writer, surely enough to
convince even a hardened cynic that room always exists for new up
and coming writers:
Advertising copy, articles, audio-visual scripts, books (fiction and
non-fiction), brochures (for products, holiday firms and many other
services), children's books, columns in magazines and newspapers,
comedy, educational and training literature, feature articles,
articles and columns in local and county magazines and periodicals,
ghost writing, greetings cards, crosswords and other puzzles,
readers' letters, fillers, handbooks for specific organisations,
newsletters, poetry, press releases, public relations material,
advertisement copy, sales letters, short stories, biographies,
speeches, sports commentating, teaching other would-be writers,
business and self-improvement manuals, writing up material for
correspondence courses, journalism, trade journals, radio and
television, comic strips, travel writing, plays, etc., etc., etc.
* Forget about other writers, don’t worry that long established
writers will beat you to all the best writing assignments. As you’ve
just seen there are very many areas open for writers of all
experience and insufficient professionals to satisfy demand.
* 'Stick to writing what you know' is a very good piece of advice,
even if the world and its uncle drum it into you at every possible
opportunity. But I would add to that: 'or write about what you would
enjoy getting to know, or could easily get to know.
For example, the beginning writer with no knowledge of how to get to
the coast without a map and compass, should not offer a personally
researched analysis of the wonders of the deep, or seek to
photograph the burial sites of ancient wrecks if in addition to his
problems, he has never learned to swim.
But we all like Christmas, don't we? And even though we might know
absolutely nothing about the origins of the many traditions behind
this most enjoyable occasion, I'm sure few of us would shrink from
putting in the necessary research to prepare an article for a glossy
magazine, offering a nice fat fee for our findings. As we start our
careers in writing, dealing with what we already know lessens the
time we need spend researching and leaves more opportunity for
practicing the mechanics of actually putting words to paper.
Above all, don’t worry about being published, if you enjoy your work
and work hard the money will always follow.
Avril Harper is a successful writer and the author of
HOW TO BE A FIVE MINUTE
WRITER which you can read more about at
http://www.fillerfactory.com
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