If you feel that you are a talented storyteller and writer who can engage the masses of readers with your work, then you should try to apply your abilities in the field of individual entrepreneurship.
Literary work brings the most famous and readable authors a huge income – suffice it to say that in the ten popular writers of the world – solid millionaires who earned in 2012 from 15 to 40 million dollars. And both male and female writers are represented roughly equally in today’s rankings. So there is no gender discrimination in the writing markets; this business is very democratic, available to men and women equally.
Of course, only a few hundred writers make millions of dollars a year (and there is only one billionaire writer, Joan Rowling). The average aspiring writer can only dream of that. But every road, even the longest, begins with the first step. You can’t fry an egg without breaking it.
Once upon a time, the most famous and celebrated writers were budding authors who tried their hand at small novels, novellas, and short stories. It was only with time that fame, glory, and recognition came to them. So do not torture yourself long doubts – especially since the writing business does not require any investments, seed money in the form of equipment, premises, hiring staff. If something goes wrong, the writing business can be painlessly suspended or curtailed.
It’s worth noting that writing, by its very nature, is an innovative entrepreneurship. You can never say in advance whether the reader will accept a particular work, or remain indifferent to it. For example, the now famous Russian novelist Daria Dontsova began to write her first novels while in the hospital with a serious illness. Being bedridden, Dontsova used her intellect and wrote several books. By the time of her recovery her written works were already in print. And in a few years Dontsova became the most paid and famous author in our country.
To engage in the writing business, the aspiring author should determine the genre in which he would like to work – what will it be, fiction, romance, mystery, detective or something else. Choosing a literary career, it should be borne in mind that not all genres are equal in terms of income. Detectives, fiction, romance, mysticism, and love novels bring more substantial profits, while poems and poems, and scientific literature bring lesser profits.
Starting with literary work, it’s desirable for the novice author to imagine the whole business process, starting from the idea for the work and ending with the sale of the finished product to the publisher or the publication of it on any Internet resource. It is worth taking into account a whole range of issues related to the payment of royalties.
It is not necessary to work on a literary work alone. Often an author is helped by other people, who become his or her shadow or official co-authors. Our advice – work in the field where you are better at. Use not only your own opinions, but those of others as well.
