How hard is it to become a S. King or Salvatore, T. Brooks or even a Rowling. Is it a one in a million shot or does the average writer have a chance without waiting years?
I am debating on a career choice and need some help. (How hard is it to become a top selling artist?)
2007-04-24 02:33:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Like you, I have a passion for writing, and I hope to one day make it to be a top selling author. However, if I were you, I wouldn't make it my #1 career choice. In fact, I haven't. Writing is difficult. You're writing for a world that has many different tastes and is very opinionated. The readers, they can make you and they can break you. Also, you do have to wait years. One manuscript alone can take over two years to complete, then you need a literary agent to try and get your work out there. Either that or you'll have to spend big bucks on subsidy publishing. Please don't take this as a discouraging answer to your question!! I know what I'm up against and still I'm working on my first piece which I fully intend on publishing. I don't have a literary agent, but I'll get one when I'm ready. Again, don't make this your solid career choice. Have a good steady career you can fall back on in case the writing gig blows up in your face. But don't give up your writing! Keep working on it. You never know, what if your stuff is stellar and you do make it to being a bestselling author? I wish you the best of luck from one aspiring author to another.
2007-04-24 03:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by Raingirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The "average writer" will never be one of those you've named - they are not average. They really are a few in a million. As for a career choice, you might want to try finding work you enjoy for income, then write for pleasure, so that you won't be stressed and depressed by your first failures. Who knows, with time you might be one of the ones-in-millions.
2007-04-24 09:45:10 · answer #2 · answered by Arnold M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋