Wanna Be a Part-time Writer?

By LeiraOlecra

Beginning writers may test the market value of their materials buy submitting it to on-line publication or to their favorite magazines. There are actually many ways that literate persons use the ability to write and to become professional writer – start by writing these stuff.

1. Letters to share with your close friends that would reveal your innermost secrets, tales from the dark side and many more or a record of your fantasies.
(a) Letters
(b) Diaries

2. Write to meet academic or professional requirements in your school or office.
(a) Themes
(b) Term or Research Papers
(c) Memorandum and Announcements
(d) Reports
(e) Articles for professional journals

3. Write-ups or articles intended for youth organization, churches, civic or professional groups, and business sectors.
(a) Minutes of Meetings
(b) Annual Reports
(c) Newsletters and journals

4. For publication in the local community or national periodicals.
(a) News Stories
(b) Comments and Suggestions
(c) Captions stories with photographs
(d) Articles

5. For books and pamphlets

The types of letters actually range from a letter sent to a loved one, through intimate revelations of one’s self to another person, to the carefully crafted promotional letter down to the formal business letters.

Nowadays a lot of companies employed a so called virtual assistant and usually these assistants are hired by individuals to answer letters or queries in their behalf. They may be answers to advertisements, applications for work, inquiries on availability of stocks, complaints to name some.

Keeping a diary is also a valuable experience for writers. This practice your writing skills on everyday basis to analyze, describe, observe what is going on in your day to day life. Soon you will find out that your diary is not only a source of information and insight but a very useful record of something to write about.

A theme is a formal short essay you have been doing since you were in high school. It is a short composition usually written about one subject from a personal point of view. It can also be objective in approach and may deal with variety of subjects.

Now – to write announcements and memorandums, one must really know its purpose, the person it is to reach and the specific information each reader requires. Everything that is necessary should be said and eliminate distracting information.

Every organization should keep a careful record of what takes place in each of their meetings. This record may be needed soon to verify the authenticity of action taken or to guide in future action. Minutes should include the name of the organization or the club; the title of the group or body holding the meeting; the date and hour of coming to order and adjournment; members absents and presents; the names of visitors if there is any; titles of reports given; and all other actions taken and topics discuss during the meeting.

News stories are reports of cultural events, about fires, robberies, accidents and hundreds of other topics can be written as news stories that can be submitted to newspapers and to on-line or traditional magazines. While a feature story should be concise, clear and interesting in its approach. The range of subject matter in feature articles is very wide and after then you may also want to try writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction stories.

Remember that big things come from small beginnings. Start practice writing until you become professional but as much as possible do not make this as a profession but as a hobby. There is not much money in writing but more of glamour and prestige.