I want to become a writer..but i dont know where to start?

Question

How do I get my name out there and get with a publishing company?

Answer 1

If you got material ready to publish... reasearch publishers that may be best suited to your style of material.

Then read up on their guidelines of submission. Some publishers will take unsolicited manuscripts, but many won't. What that means is a publisher will ask that you "pitch" your story idea to them and include a couple of sample chapters, rather than the whole manuscript. If they like your idea and your sample, then they'll ask that you send the full manuscript. Pay attention to how they want your manuscript formatted, and follow it.

Other publishers will not talk to you at all unless you have an agent. This is the most efficent way of getting yourself out there, because your agent will do the research and pitching for you... but obviously agents and especially good agents don't come cheap.

The best place to start is the Writer's Digest Market Guide for the current year. It is a directory of hundreds of publishers all over North America, their size, their guidelines and what kind of books they publish, and what you should expect in the way of advances/royalities etc. If you waste a lot of time and money selling yor stuff to publishers that don't want it, then it will become very frustrating, very fast.

Other than that, maintaining a website is a good place to get your name out there, and to build a readership and a name. Publishers will be much more open to you if you have a beefy website fan base then if you are a nobody. Other than that, keep working at it and good luck.

Answer 2

Writers do not "want to become a writer". They ARE writers. They write everyday... write journals, poems, stories, newspaper articles, editorials, whatever... but they write. Can't stop writing. It is their expression, their salvation, their sanity (or insanity), if you will.

Eventually they write something so compelling that it must be shared and they submit it repeatedly to the appropriate venue until it gets published. (An article about the local high school football game is best submitted to a newspaper, not a novel publisher.) All of the good writers that I personally know or have read about write because they must, not because they want to become rich and famous. The R & F part comes about because of persistance and proliferation. ie: they write frequently and submit just as frequently.

Answer 3

You can start by writing an ebook. You can publish this yourself on the internet and test the waters. Lots of avenues there. I found some information for you on writing them you may want to look at. Good luck.

Answer 4

Write something and pretty much just started sending it to publishing companies.

Answer 5

Good luck, I have been trying for 20 years. I just cannot get the stories finished. Write first. Read about other authors and find out what they did to get started. We can't all be J. K. Rowlings or Stephen King, but we can try.

Answer 6

Wrote a very good book, then go to the publisher. If he likes it you have a chanse to become a writer.

Answer 7

You keep sending your work and don't give up but don't give up your day job, it can take years. Or you could self publish. Do a course? Send to newspapers or magazines, do lots of research into how they write, the sorts of things they publish and tailer what you write to their style. You could go in writing competitions.

Answer 8

I had started writing from the age of 13 and am doing pretty well now after 3 years. i can wish you good luck.

Answer 9

First, buy a box of pencils and a yellow legal pad.

Next, write what you think about.

Once you fill-up your tablet, you'll have doors open for publication!

Answer 10

It begins with writing if you're unknown. You have to have a product first. No one's going to pay you based on unrealized potential.