Looking to start a career writing. Know it'll take a while- any suggestions for a beginner??

Question

I've always wanted to be a writer- and I've got some stories I'm working on, but have no idea where to begin to submit. Anyone with any suggestions please let me know- it'd help me tons!!!

Answer 1

Write write write write

Look at all the options for writing.

Read many different things. Submit your stories to magazines and periodicals that you read (look in the inside cover).

Join writers groups in your area .

Buy the writers digests and magazines that often contain lists of publishers.

and write write write.

A few stories is not a career.

But if you can publish a few and feel encouraged then over many years you can build your future. But one day you will have to make a choice, keep working or quit and write full-time. That day you may become a writer.

Answer 2

Go to helium.com. It has a lot of resources...and you can write on there to get your inspiration flowing. you can make some money from there but it isn't much I'm talking change not dollars...

I recently had a book published by Publish America they seem to be a decent company.

Most importantly, don't write for anyone other than yourself. If it is not for you, it will not have the emotion behind it to make it great. Write about things you already know about, but don't be afraid to try different genres.

Don't get discouraged, and get used to criticism there is a lot of it in the writing world.

I don't know anything about you, but, I am 22 a mother and a wife, and I have my first book for sale on Amazon and other places on the web, take it from me, it is an amazing feeling. Writing its self is very rewarding, but knowing that someone else finds it suitable to read, it is breathtaking.

Patricia Arkeketa
121 Insights Into a Young Girls Mind
www.freewebs.com/trishasbook
www.publishamerica.com
www.helium.com (I am on this site too!)

Answer 3

I can't answer about the medical field, but I too used to be a teacher and moved from that to being self-employed, which I love. How about talking to respiratory therapists or physical therapists and ask where they got their training?? From that, you can decide if you want to spend the time for those professions. And I will bet that since you already have a degree, many of those hours will apply to a second degree...if a second degree ends up being the requirement. But compare colleges--what courses you have taken before that one college won't take--the other might! Good luck!!