Our freezer sounds like a dolphin when I open it. It makes me feel like I’m at a well-populated beach. Or Seaworld.
The last time I was really drunk was September 3rd. I know this because I made garlic bread, stuck it in the freezer, got drunk, and forgot about it. Jeremy later found that bread and threw it in a freezer bag. I distinctly remember shouting “Write the date on it! Write the date on it!” as though bread was my top priority. I found the last of it and that memory while I was investigating our dolphin freezer.
I’m very good at following recipes but very bad at making eggs over easy. I’m excellent at making scrambled eggs and spinach. I’ve been eating a lot of eggs for lunch.
It’s weird having zero coworkers. One night Jeremy told me that he’s the janitor at this home equals office setup. The janitor must be on vacation because I took out the trash and recycling this week.
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I’m really loving the self-employed life. I had been bracing myself for a panicked meltdown — some variation on “oh god oh god I quit my job what have I done?” — but it turns out I’ve been only grateful and full of bliss. I’m working on a new novel and so buzzy and excited to see where the characters take me. I’ve even been playing around with short stories again. Each morning after yoga I head…
What steps should I take to become a full time writer? I'm graduating uni soon & plan to take a year off to write and then I'll get qualified in teaching the year after but I really hope I can earn a living through my writing. The future scares me :(
This is a tough question because no two writers follow the same path to publication or to full-time writer-dom. And there are so many sub-categories to this answer, so I’m just going to give the broad strokes here. Feel free to follow up with specifics if I don’t address your question! Warning: this is also really long. I apologize in advance. But it’s a BIG question. More under the cut, to spare people just scrolling past from getting a huge block of text. ;)
READ ON FOR ADVICE ON BECOMING A FULL TIME WRITER…
The first thing you should know is that very few writers (statistically speaking) support themselves entirely on their writing work as full-time writers. Many very successful authors I know have other jobs and/or spouses to support the writing career, especially because being a self-employed artist comes with zero benefits of the financial kind.
Someone out there is going to disagree with me, I’m sure, but I strongly believe that you should never, ever become an artist of any kind for the money. For one thing, it’s way too easy to be disappointed if you never make it big, and for that disappointment to taint your love of creating art. I always tell people to ask themselves this question: If I never get paid a dime for my work, and I knew RIGHT NOW that I’d never get paid a dime for it, would I still do it? It’s okay for the answer to that question to be no! But it’s something worth knowing about yourself and your work, so that you can continue to reevaluate your goals as you move forward.
Now, I’m NOT telling all this to scare you. Far from it. I love being a writer, and I wouldn’t exchange it for any other job in the world. I’m also not trying to discourage you. But others WILL try to discourage you (every single writer out there can tell you about some naysayer who told him or her to study accounting instead) so I’m just laying out the realities so you’ll be prepared when others throw them at you.
SO. First of all, be prepared to work another job while you write (which it sounds like you are: teaching!). You may have to spend many years cramming your writing into lunch breaks and late night or early morning sessions. This can, strangely, help productivity. If you know you’ve only got an hour to write before you’ve got to go back to your job, you’ll end up writing like the wind.
Secondly, if you can afford to take a year to write before starting at another job, that’s fantastic. SEIZE THAT OPPORTUNITY, because it’s invaluable. Make the most of it. Just don’t bank on having a steady writing income by the time the year’s up. While it might happen, there’s no guarantee, so be prepared for what you’ll do if you’re not published by then.
Some advice on what to do to prepare for being a professional writer:
Read a lot. And not just for entertainment, though I’m a firm believer that life is short, so read what you want. ;) But read critically. If you read something you really love, go back and try to figure out how the author did what he or she did. What about this character made you fall in love? What about that plot twist made it so satisfying?
Write a lot. A lot of people disparage the idea of writing every day. I used to be one of them. I also never finished a novel until I tried it, and that experience made me a convert. But whatever it is, come up with a system for making yourself write regularly. The point is to start making the conversion in your head from “hobby” to “job.” This doesn’t mean it has to stop being fun, though your relationship with writing may change, which is okay.
Share your work. Find someone to read your work critically. There are a lot of great blog posts out there about how to find a critique partner, so I won’t go into it here. But getting used to both sharing your work and receiving both positive and negative feedback on it is invaluable. It gets easier the more you do it. It never gets EASY (at least it hasn’t for me!) but it gets easier.
Study the business. Follow writers on social media. Follow their agents. Follow their publishers. Read articles about how to get published, and read them from a variety of sources, because there are differing opinions that are all still valid. Read Publisher’s Marketplace and get a feel for what sort of books are selling right now, and how they’re pitched. When I began writing my first full novel (which ended up being Skylark) I started studying how one gets published, entirely via the internet. It helped motivate me to keep going, and by the time I’d finished writing the novel, I knew my plan of action when it came to querying agents.
And yes. Get an agent. Some writers do work without them, but personally, I am so grateful for mine and absolutely believe it’s worth the 15% commission. Not only do I think I would’ve struggled to get published at all without one, I KNOW I wouldn’t be making enough money to be full-time. All that aside, agents handle so much of the day-to-day junk that comes with writing—dealing with your publisher, fighting your fights for you, keeping track of income for tax purposes, selling to foreign publishers you’ve never even heard of, and a million other things. If you want to be traditionally published (as opposed to self-published) get an agent.
Set goals you can control. Don’t fall into the trap of “If I can just ________, I’ll be happy.” Because that bar keeps moving. You might think that getting an agent will make you happy, but then once you get one, you realize that now you’ve got to go on submission to publishers. Then it might be just selling your book that’ll make you happy, but then you have to see how it actually does in the market. Getting fans and followers. Selling another book. Getting to go on tour. Getting good critical reviews. Hitting various bestseller lists. Selling movie rights. These are all things over which you have next to no control, and if you make these things your goals, you’re going to be disappointed sooner or later. They can be dreams (because you should never stop dreaming) but don’t make them goals you HAVE to achieve to find satisfaction in your work. Set long term goals like “I’m going to finish my novel this year” and short term goals like “each week I’m going to research one new agent.” The rest will happen, or not happen, by itself.
The future IS scary. Trust me, it doesn’t stop being scary as far as I know. And if you’re looking for security, a career as a writer is not likely to provide a fear-free life. But in my experience, facing that fear gets easier with time. The first few years after publication are fraught with ups and downs as the reality of the business sets in. I’m still afraid, all the time, that my own career is a soap bubble dream that’ll burst if I look at it too hard. But fear doesn’t have to be a bad thing. I choose consciously to make that fear a positive, because it motivates me. (Sometimes I’m better at this conscious choice than other times.) I work hard because I love my work and don’t ever want it taken away from me, because what on earth else would I do for a living? I use my fear to drive me.
So it’s okay to be scared. It’s okay to acknowledge that you’re scared. Just don’t let your fear immobilize you. Bravery is going ahead despite being afraid, and art, ANY kind of art, is bravery. Every single one of us was scared too. You’re going to pour your heart onto a page and then ask someone you’ve never met to love it. It’s scary. But you can do it.
Let’s Write a Short Story! by Joe Bunting is one of those books I should have had in college. But it’s not too late for that because I have this book and it’s a must in every writer’s bookshelf.
The book is easy to read, very informative. Joe detailed all the information you need to know about writing a short story in a brief and concise manner. You can finish it in one sitting.
I like how the book related the experiences of famous writers and artists on how they almost failed in creating their masterpieces but tried a little harder and just submitted their work.
I’m a struggling writer and reading this book inspires and motivates me to submit and publish my work, make a name, and compete in the outside world.
You see, there are a lot of writers out there! But Joe said, “If you want to be a writer, expect rejection. It’s actually a badge of honor.”
Ouch! I’m actually kind of getting used to rejection but this book will tell you that ‘rejection’ will not go on forever if we keep on trying, working hard, applying the tips and techniques and writing prompts to get you started, which are offered by the book, and submitting our work until we get published.
A published writer
I had a shot of getting published at The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Youngblood section, one of the leading newspapers in our country, in 2004.
It was an essay about my experiences as a military cadet, how I got in, my realizations, and why I had to get out because I chose to be a full-time writer.
Because of that one shot / one-time-big-time publication, I tried my hand in submitting a 100+ page romance story (my first love) to earn money out of it but it was rejected.
So I’ve accepted writing academic papers only to find myself squeezing in time and juggling through work and my part time job, stressed out, running out of writing ideas, drained, and not really enjoying what I’m doing.
So I stopped accepting those writing jobs and focused on writing stories that really matters to me, that interests me, stories I really love writing, which are fitness, health, lifestyle, love stories, fashion, food, travel, sports, books, and life.
I realized writing shouldn’t be about money. Writing should be about pursuing our passion because when we do that everything else will follow: money, fame, or recognition.
As Joe said, “Someday, you will die, and all the stories you dreamed of writing will die with you. What do you have to complete to die satisfied?”
This left me dumbfounded. Yes, life is too short to waste on doing unnecessary things and not writing. It’s time to put those ideas on paper, write those stories we’ve always been dreaming of.
And I’m proud to say that right now, I am blogging and will try my hand in writing short stories. I’m also back to writing romance stories, even though it’s hard to write a love story when all you get is someone rejecting you or breaking your heart.
But you see, when you can’t write that is actually the time to write and if we pursue our passions, we’ll end up happy and fulfilled in life because that’s what will really matter in the end, right?
So to all writers out there, buy this book and be inspired! I assure you, you won't regret it!
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