I really wanna be a writer in the worst possible way. I've always known since I was very little, that one day, I'd be a writer, and all of my pain, and mental hurts/anguishes would be understood, and sense would be made out of it. I want to write about everything... ANYthing and EVERYthing, and spoil my friends and family with wonderful things and vacations when I get lots of cash from it. I'm really excited, and passionate about my hobbies, esp. writing, drawing, and art. I'm creating new techniques of artistry and painting, and I'm really psyched about it. So, you think I'll sell lots of stuff? I'll add links to my poetry later, when I post another question similar to this one. Thanks for reading this folks, and please respond honestly. I write about love, life, tragedy, romance, God, grief, hatred, uncertainty, psychology, and lots of other topics. I'm quit diverse, actually. But I need a job right now, to tide me over till I do what I REALLY wanna make money for: Writing.
2007-11-19 07:38:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
try the art avenue. great writers show promise at a young age
"wanna" isn't good enough to get into a commu ity college. Unlike the others trying to get a best answer, I speak the truth, when I say I could barely get through your paragraph
2007-11-25 06:46:19 · answer #1 · answered by huggl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only writing that consistently pays well is screenwriting. Poetry pays zero. Fiction pays good, but it's kind of like the lottery for where it pays well. There are two tracks you can take to become a serious writer of literature.
One is academia. Become an English professor or a professor in some other literary pursuit and get the university to underwrite costs for publishing your book. This will require a Ph.D.
The other track is to have experiences on the edge of society and then write about them. Most writers don't get noticed until they're in their 40s, so until then do some crazy stuff in far-flung places in the world until you get to the age where you're ready to describe what you've seen. Join the military or the peace corps or the merchant marines or become a foreign-correspondent type journalist.
2007-11-19 07:51:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I appreciate your passion and your hunger to follow it. Making money off of poetry is unlikely, even if you are both talented and prolific; it is simply not enough by itself to sustain a career financially.
Writing novels carries potential, but the odds are long. The keys are to write very well, get your work published, get your work promoted, and repeat. Being noticed and published, now more than ever, is hard.
I would work on writing, and keep writing. Find another way to pay the bills, and do not expect your need to do so to go away. Focus on the writing itself first, and produce something you would want to buy. Find someone willing to give a thorough, informed, honest critique of your work, and get that person's opinion. (Note: if the opinion solicited is, "This is really, really good, and I think you should publish it right away," most likely the person who tells you this is not giving a thorough, informed, honest critique.) Expect rejection, but do not stop writing when you are rejected.
There is no guarantee that you will ever sell a book - and in fact, it is likely you will not. Work at it, keep improving, and see if you can overcome the odds.
2007-11-19 08:13:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jeff R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will not make a living off of poetry. Ever.
Poetry is not a seller's or a buyer's market. It is an intellectual market.
Poetry is not a financial pursuit, it is a personal or public pursuit. Do not kid yourself. A writer's life is a hard life and judging from this little paragraph of yours, you do not have the discipline nor the experience. Yet.
Get into a good creaive writing program at a university. But do not be blinded by the hopes of money and fame falling from the heavens based only on your talent and hard work.
Why most of us write poetry has nothing to do with money and fame. There is something else. And in order to succeed, you have to be willing to pursue that something else and give up hope that verse will make your life easy.
2007-11-19 09:05:09 · answer #4 · answered by Nathan D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How would we know without reading what you write?
And personally, I don't think one writes for money, unless you don't intend to write great works of art. You either write because you desperately need to do so, or write to make money. These are two very different things.
2007-11-19 07:49:09 · answer #5 · answered by Lady Annabella-VInylist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-17 13:15:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get the job for money and prezzies for Mum...write because it is your pleasure...
TD
Been writing a long time. Never made a million, yet.
2007-11-19 08:25:14 · answer #7 · answered by TD Euwaite? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Honestly how can anyone answer your question? No samples, no knowledge of the contacts you can make and it is 75% contacts and 25% talent.
2007-11-19 07:47:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, we really can't know, but if you're passionate about it, and try, anything is possable. ; P
what do you mean by "in the worst possible way"?
2007-11-19 07:46:31 · answer #9 · answered by Jesus_freak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋