What kind of education would I need to be a writer as in writing fiction - books, movies, t.v. shows???

Question

And how do you get into this type of work?

Answer 1

You don't need any degree to break into this field, although it would help with some jobs.

You could start by submitting short fiction to journals or magazines. Many of these evaluate your work without any information about your credentials or reputation. First read the journal to see if they publish the kinds of stuff you write. If you like what they publish, maybe they will like what you write. Also carefully read any submission guidelines they have. Here is a big list of journals that publish creative writing (fiction and poetry).

http://www.litline.org/links/onlinejournals.html

As for TV and movie writing, a degree or some schooling might really help you get an internship or a lower-level job at a place where you can meet people that can take your writing and do something with it. In other words, the degree may not get your masterpiece onto the big screen, but it might get you into the right circles where you meet the right people to share your masterpiece with and whatever happens happens. An aspiring writer and filmmaker friend of mine moved to L.A. just to be there, and he has had pretty good success making connections and getting involved in work that interests him (although I think he has waited a lot of tables along the way, too!)

If you want your education to make you a better writer, look for a school with an M.F.A. program (that's the highest creative writing degree you can get). They should have strong creative writing professors you can take classes from (probably even if your degree is in something else like film, communication, etc.)

Also, look on your university website for bios of your professors. The creative writing professors and maybe some of the Literature/English faculty will have published creative works. Find professors who have published a lot and ask for their advice! Talk to them even if they have published poetry as opposed to fiction, but don't mix up the ones who publish scholarly articles (works of research and criticism) with the ones who publish creative works--those are two very different playing fields.

Answer 2

A liberal arts education at university would be a good start. Studying subjects from the arts faculty will give you a broader perspective on life and some understanding of society. Post graduate creative writing courses anywhere would probably help hone your writing skills. After the education is finished it's up to you to push your work and show people you can create. Though by no means the bible of writing, Stephen King's "On Writing" is an interesting read and gets into how he got started and the process of writing.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

actually you don't.

but you have to be good in your grammar and English vocabulary. you also need to have a certain style that makes you different from other writers. you also have a keen in sentence making, very good in proofreading and very much adept in illustrating sequences or situations by means of words.

you can apply to any company, magazine or tv station by giving your sample works to them.