can someone tell me is it easy to become a writer?

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Answer 1

no is not

Answer 2

Some of us are born writers, it's the best part of who we are & our biggest coping skill with the difficulties and even the joys of the world and all that confusion in between.

Becoming a published writer that's the hard part! a writer will get enough rejection notices to wallpaper their whole house 3 times over. When this happens and it will harness the self doubt to make yourself try harder. Advice I got from a very dear friend also a writer.

Answer 3

No. At least, it's not easy to become a good writer. It is easy to write, you're just stringing stentences together in a line from beginning to end. But to truely be a writer, you have to know how to arrange your words and setences so they read well, flow at a good pace, aren't choppy, use correct punctuation and grammar, use capitalization and use correct tenses.

The hard part is writing well, as I said earlier. A lot of people write, but few write well. Even published authors. There aren't many who write amazingly well crafted stories.

Much of it is natural ability, a love of wods and an ability to write down descriptions others can visualize. It takes a good grasp of language and of story-telling in general. There needs to be a lot of creativity coming from /yourself/ for plots, ideas and solutions.

If you want to show work publicly you need a thick skin and an ability to listen and accept critique.

It's not hard to be a writer, but it is hard to be a writer of quality writings.

If any of that makes sense.

Answer 4

It's a lot easier to write for magazines than it is to be a novelist etc, providing you can break the right market. Start off with something simple like a letter's page or a filler. Try a couple of short articles after that. If you can crack it, there is money to be made in just those.
I'd recommend getting in touch with the Writer's Bureau (if you're in the UK), that's who I studied with, and I've had10 articles, 4 letters and a couple of fillers published in the last 6 months. For those, I got about £1500. But the course cost me £275 and I doubt I'd have managed if it hadn't been for that. They're really good because if you haven't made your fee back before you finish your course, they refund it; but you do have to send them proof that you're trying to get work published, they don't just take your word for it!


edit: WHAT!!! Am I dreaming? I thought Katie just said she agreed with me. Naah got to have read that wrong! (Only messing about, Katie.)

Answer 5

First off you don't become a writer you either know your are or you think you are. It's like becoming an artist, you either are an artist or your not, their is no becoming.

If you are asking if its hard to sell your product after you are finished then it is dependent on how much you believe in your work and how many business classes you take.

Answer 6

If you are wanting to find and "easy" way to become a writer, i don't think you you really want to be a writer, or that you should be.
You have to want to put ALOT of effort into.
there is no easy way to do it.
if there was some trick or something, i think more people kwould be writers.

Answer 7

unfortunately no. its not because you aren't very good at story telling, its just because lately this country has become a nation of writers rather than readers. its a difficult business. but you need something new and fresh otherwise you won't get a look in. i have been writing for pleasure (because i love it and its me) and researching this for years but I'm scared of the rejection as things in this industry has become as overloaded as showbiz! one day, i'll have the balls to just keep going but at the minute the whole thing seems to have gone into overdrive. i blame j k rowling..lol.

EDIT she will probably hate it but i agree with hallie..lol. thumbs up to her.

Answer 8

I don t think so , because you need to have some talent and imagination and writers are special people cause not every one can think like they think

Answer 9

No it isn't. The thing with writing is you can either do it or you can't (like musical talent, I suppose). Even if you can write you have to work very, very hard.... then you have to find a publisher/agent who likes your work.... Writing isn't a career you can just choose to do - it chooses you.

Answer 10

It's easy to be a writer, but extremly difficult to be a good one.

Answer 11

It isn't. I truly believe writers are born just like all other artists. It is a gift from our Creator. However it doesn't end there - it only begins there. After that, you have to work to hone and train that gift until it is a skill and a talent. That takes hard work, education and lots of practice. Most authors would tell you that the first several things they wrote they never showed to anyone. You don't play Carnegie Hall the first time you learn to play the piano, and you don't write a best selling novel the first time you sit down to write. As Stephen King said, "you cannot be a great writer until you are a great reader." Read everything good and bad. Learn to analyze the things you read and tell the difference. Learn to recognize what it about things you read that you do not like. Work to develop your own personal style. Figure out what your genre is. It took me years to find the genre that made my words sing. Just keep writing - journals, short stories. poems, fragments - anything that will help.

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Good luck to you. Pax- C