You know, a lot of writers had to go through a million hoops before anything ever went right for them. Look at Steven King. That guy wrote a TON of stuff before his first book was actually accepted. And we are talking hours and hours on a typewriter... No Word 2010 for that guy.
Today, writing for an income is WAY different. It's no longer JUST books that can make a writer really known. It's more than that. There are many avenues one can take, whether an awesomely creative writer who can burst out with 10 short stories in 2 days, all no less than 50 pages, or the more serious writer who has to have the facts before the first word, building an online portfolio of SOLD writings (you know, being published and having sold writings and articles for the little guy is like a HUGE step towards being published by the BIG guys) is really simple.
You wouldn't think so at first thought, but there are currently 4 ways to make cash online with writing right now, that anyone can take advantage of. But one just has to know where to go.
Step 1. Understand what kind of writer you are.
Knowing what you really want to write is your first step. Kids books, a series of books, books on how to do something you are an expert at (yep, even making ice cream with just the right amount of chocolate syrup), maybe just a jumble of short stories over the years, poems, whatever you want. The reason behind this is so you know from the start what you want to write your first book (series) about.
Step 2. Identify what kind of writing you want to sell.
Now that you know what kind of writing you want to write, you have to know what kind of writing you want to sell. The main two are books and articles. Why these two? Because having a book published (and SOLD) is awesome, but garnish it in with some articles published (and SOLD), and you have a killer portfolio before you go up against pitching your first novel (if you ever do or even need to).
Why not both?
It's possible to do both, BUT you can really only do one at a time (focus, focus, focus).Publishing books for Kindle (Amazon) is easy as simply creating an account and then publishing.... but that doesn't mean that it will immediately sell. There are a few tricks of the online trade being used that amplifies the chances of Amazon sales by miles.
Publishing articles and selling them is also easy, and provided by Amazon as well (though freelancer is a nice place too), but again, just posting some articles for sale, or writing articles, doesn't always pan out as expected without a little know how.
And finally, as I lightly mentioned before, being hired on freelancer.com can also bank a few bucks as a writer selling articles. But just starting out, one has to really bust out some words to gain some reputation before being able to really bank a good income there. There are some nice tricks to that too of course.
So, to recap, you have to know what you are interested in writing, you have to know what medium you want to write in (books being larger, worth more money, and articles short and though worth less money, much faster to dish out), and you have to identify what role you will be playing (writer for yourself, or freelance for other companies).
So, if you want to write books for kindle, simply start out by creating an account
http://kdp.amazon.com/mn/signin?ld=AZEbooksMakeM
Then writing your first short stories
If you want to write articles, simply sign up to voices.yahoo.com, which gets you into the Associated content network. You can use your regular yahoo ID, and just link the two.
You can also sign up to Freelancer.com and then choose any writing as your preferred jobs.
And of course, if you want to sell your written content (instead of working for others), you can sign up to the constant content network http://www.constant-content.com/
That is it in a nutshell, however, I am writing a nice set of techniques for this if anyone wants to email me and get a copy just use my UOP email in the comments of the first post in this blog.
Laters, and will write up a bit more maybe tomorrow.
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