what kind of job can I do that I can be a writer and still make a good salary?

Question

My professor says that I am talented in my writing and that I should persue a career in writing. I write poems and short stories. What profession besides a bok/novel writer can I do? This is a personal assignment he has givin to me and i don't know what to do!

Answer 1

technical writer (write instruction manuals for software or equipment)
blogger
public relations (writing press releases)
journalist (writing articles)
screenwriter (writing movies)
playwright
advertising (writing ad copy)
greeting cards...writing them
think of all the things people read...
from manuals that come with their cars to...
instructions on how to put together a coffin
to recipes on food you buy...
help people write their resumes.
write business plans
write grants
in my job i used to write justifications all the time
write federal regulations
or training manuals or training materials
(everyone needs training to do their job, even people at taco bell, apple computers, etc.)

Answer 2

The very best advice I can give you is to train for a job which allows you to earn money and write in your spare time. If you are an electrician, or a welder, or an accountant, or have a specialty certificate for something. You can always work, write in your spare time and try to cultivate a living from it. You can always quit a job and cruise on the money you saved for half a year and go write in South America or South Asia or something. And if nothing has paid off, you go back to work until you save enough to take another shot!

Writers who take writing all the way through school, often find it hard to work thier best after a ten hour shift waiting tables and cleaning toilets so that they can afford their tiny noisy rental apartments.

Believe me, I know. Trying to improve my chances of being a writer, and give myself a chance at being one, by training to be someone who can know I have a good job whenever I want one!

Good Luck....this is THE best advise you will ever get! I know successful artists and writers who have done this, and have not. We often discuss this and everyone agrees that it was a huge and unnecessary risk not to have a fallback career in case you can't find a job in this HIGHLY competitive career choice.

Answer 3

You could be a journalist, or write a weekly column for a newspaper or Internet site. You could write children's books. You could be an editor.

Answer 4

You could start a web site and post your writings there, or write an ebook and sell it online.

Answer 5

You can be a Technical Writer in big global corporate.

Though, I pray to god that you won`t :)

good luck sugar

Answer 6

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Answer 7

One that makes you money so you can focus on your writing!