How to become a writer in 10 easy steps- words of positivity.
1. Be sure to have a life chock full of experiences–mostly bad and some good. You need something to write about. One writer turned his unpleasant childhood experiences into three science fiction/fantasy novels.
2. Give yourself to others–quite often they’ll take advantage of you or hurt you. Insight into the actions of others is always useful for character development.
3. Remain unemployed a year or more–lots of interesting happenings in the unemployment line. This gives you time to write and complain about your lot in life. Write every day.
4. So, now you’re out of work. Financial ruin stares you in the face–a great motivator for writing and actually putting your work in the mail.
5. Be sure to have at least one great and devastating love affair–useful for one or two good short stories. Is it better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all?
6. Embrace depression or, better yet, mental instability–always good for a poem or three, or maybe a dark fantasy. One writer had a fantasy about killing her ex-husband and turned it into a murder mystery.
7. Cherish your writing time. Snarl at friends and family who would pry you away from your scattered scraps of paper.
8. Read lots of books about how to write. The conflicting advice contained therein will thoroughly confuse you. (if you write romance/erotica, check out our FREE stories Salty Vixen Stories & More posts daily at our Loverotica section
9. Be sure to send off the first drafts of your work. This almost always guarantees rejection. Gleefully count your rejection slips often. These slips validate the fact that you’re a writer!
10. Okay. You’ve cut yourself off from friends and family. Your heart is breaking. Perhaps you are thinking negative thoughts. You’re also confused, rejected, and dejected. You have all the material you need for at least three poems and one or two good short stories. You are finally ready to write.
If all else fails, with the way the world is today, become an indie author. An Indie author can self publish their own work at various outlets, the difference between an indie authors and non-indie author is, you are your own PR (public relations), you have to put in the work to promote yourself and you got this, you can do it!
