Writing For Fun and Profit

I had a poem published years ago. I have written a few children's stories but haven't done anything with them yet. I am also working on a book but it is slow going. I am like a lot of people and am scared of sending them in.

I have never had anything published in the physical world but I've written a lot of articles for the internet. Unfortunately, the one that hired me has disappeared. I assume he is occupied with other things. I haven't written now for a couple of years and I do miss the occupation as well as the income.

I have been published in the online world, but not necessarily in the real world. I am taking a break from writing, but I may go back to it sometime. My suggestion would be to hone your craft.

Just love what you do. Make it your very favourite job to do. Try to love what you write and if you don´t love that style of writing try another style. That is my Chicken Soup.

I love writing since I learned how to do it but not really a skilled one. But I love conversing here in myLot and I don't really wish for any of my writings to be published. Hope someday here could give you a good tip.

I used to write online a few years ago but I don't think I have developed the writing skills to be published. I am interested to see other members who have achieved more though, it's always helpful to get some advice from experienced people.

I've never really been published so can't add very much. Sent in a poem once to an online site that was printed up in a book of poetry with other works by other writers but that is about it. Will be reading this to see any further tips that might be helpful. @lovebuglena created a very good post on Book Royaltities.

If you want to publish a book you have a few options... one is to find and hire an agent who will believe in your book and will want to work with you and find a traditional publisher who will actually want to publish it. I am not sure how this works as never done this but I am assuming you'd have to pay the agent... and the agent will also probably have you edit the book... and you will need to write query letters to the publisher as well from what I've been told... You can avoid all that and just publish the book on your own (through lulu or createspace), meaning do everything yourself - the manuscript, the book cover, etc. and upload everything to these sites to publish your book, which will cost you nothing. Or you can hire someone (for a fee of course) who can publish the book for you using these publishers (I offer that), if you don't want to do all this yourself. Or you can find POD (Print-On-Demand) publishers or other non-traditional publishers, who will offer to publish the book for you with their publishing packages (which may even include some book promotion) but you will have to pay and maybe even a lot of money to publish that book of yours, if you opt for this option.

I used to have a blog, but not anymore.