I'm still bad at writing, but I never give up. I must write everyday, and I never stop writing. I know , there are so many intelligent people but they are not willing to be a writer. Because they know that being a writer needs hard practicing. My blog here is to motivate me and all of you to be a meaningful people, one of them is to be a writer.
I have read a motivating article to encourage someone to be a writer. If you love to write, and perhaps you’ve even had some of your work
published, but you just can’t seem to get your career as a freelance
writer of nonfiction off the ground. Here are some flight lessons based on of the suggestions many famous writers:
1. Focus
Nonfiction is an enormous universe. Map out a very small segment of
the cosmos. Do you enjoy writing creative nonfiction — long articles and
essays with a narrative flair that reads almost like fiction? Or do you
have a more practical bent, tending toward how-to articles or
procedural guides? Perhaps you’d like to write reviews of books or video
games or software or appliances. Narrow your topic field; you can
always widen your scope later.
2. Adopt
What are your favorite Web sites or magazines or books? Are there
writers whose styles inspire you? Find the publications that publish the
kinds of content you like to read, and study the writing techniques on
display. Don’t strive to imitate; use this step simply to help you find
your niche.
3. List
Create a short directory of publications or publishers to target.
Assuming you’re just starting out, list targets more likely to publish
writing by a beginner, but don’t be afraid to include a couple more
high-profile publications. And don’t neglect what’s right under your
nose: community newspaper(s), local magazines, and Web sites that
publicize your region’s businesses or cultural and natural assets.
4. Compile
Collect some of your best writing — published or otherwise — that
represents you well and matches the type of content those publications
are looking for.
5. Contact
Go to your publisher directory, look up the URL for publication Web
sites, and search for submission guidelines. If there are none, send a
request for guidelines to the editorial department’s email address or
the information address.
6. Pitch
Come up with proposals for a few articles or essays you’d like to
write, match them to various publications, and send them in.
Alternatively or in addition, submit completed articles on spec. (“On
spec,” short for “on specifications,” means tailoring an already written
piece toward a specific market and offering it for publication.)
The strategy of writing on spec has its detractors, but it’s a good
way to break into the writing market, and even if the piece itself is
turned down, it may demonstrate to an editor that your pitch is worth a
look, or that you might be a good match for an article they need a
writer for.
7. Persevere
Repeat step 6. If your pitch or your spec article is rejected, send
it to someone else. If you strike out five or ten times, retire the
idea, call in another one, and start another round with a new batch of
publications. (Wait a few months before circling back around to those
that turned you down previously, but never delete them from your
directory.) Repeat.
You may get an acceptance or an assignment on your first try. (It’s
happened.) You may get turned down once, or ten times, or a hundred
times. Don’t give up. If you want it bad enough, you’ll get it,
eventually. Your goal is not to hear “No” a given number of times, but
to hear “Yes” once, and then once more, and then once more after that,
etc. An unpublished writer is a writer who has given up.