About what to write?
There are few realists. Someone is good at writing essays on secular life, someone writes beautifully about politics or economics, and someone interestingly talks about sex or sports. The secret of success is to write only about something that you are well versed in and about what is really interesting to you. If a person who knows a lot about fashion and considers inter-sex relations the only interesting topic for conversation, then he is unlikely to like to write about the achievements of genetic engineering. And in writing it's important to be yourself.
How to write?
Its style is a necessary component of success. Each of you noticed that some authors are easy to read, while others manage to get bored in the middle of the first sentence. Trying to develop their own unique style, it is important to observe the fine line between work on the demand of the crowd and the opposition itself to the format. For example, if you write a book in a detective genre, it will not be successful if you approach it from the position of the author of school math aids. Each edition, each genre has its own format, its readers, its fans and critics. When creating an article, essay, essay, or book, you need to focus on the end user, not forgetting about yourself. This is a kind of guarantee of success.
Another necessary condition, in which writing or journalistic career is impossible - literacy and a fairly large supply of words. If you constantly make stylistic or, worse, grammatical mistakes, own only a few thousand words, you are unlikely to be able to cover the topic well.
It is important to know that the first thing that attracts readers is the title and content of the text should be associated with it. Profi use vivid metaphors, sonorous phrases to entice you and good style and syllable to keep your attention to the last letter.
How to improve?
Every writer and journalist has his own recipe. Someone constantly reads completely different literature. This is a good exercise that will expand your vocabulary, but a big risk to become like someone. Reading, it is important to take the best, and not to imitate everything in a row.
In order to write well, you just write, no matter how trite. Musicians learn the instrument for years, artists learn to mix colors and sharpen brush movements to convey their fantasies to the canvas. Writers train their hands and head. Describe everything that happens to you and around you. A good help in this matter is a personal diary in which you could not simply describe the events of your life, but turn them into stories.
In addition, there are literary institutions, all kinds of seminars and trainings, where the literary men are sharing their experience and revealing the secrets of success. If you trust someone from the authors of such trainings, consider his style worthy of imitation, then to attend classes is a good way out.
Where to go?
Let's say you (or not only you) think that you write pretty well that you have something to say to the world. Where to go, where to seek recognition? Today, the first thought that arises in many novice authors is the Internet. There are plenty of sites that will be able to publish your creations, whether short articles or voluminous novels. And most importantly - it's easy to find your reader, get a quick response and learn the readers' opinion about your talent.
Secondly, print media always need new authors. You can send out summaries to those magazines and newspapers that you like. Not the fact that your proposal will interest everyone at once, but it's worth trying.
If you want to publish your book, you have a direct way to the publishing house. Choose a few of those that publish the literature of the genre in which you write. This is important, otherwise you run the risk of hearing a refusal, because you do not fit into the format. If your book is not yet written, you have the opportunity not to make many mistakes. For example, it is important to imagine for whom you are writing a book, whether it is interesting to a wide range of readers. Of course, different literature is needed, but some books diverge faster, and this is in the interest of the publisher-he will sooner conclude an agreement with the author, which can be published in a larger circulation than with someone who will be of interest to a very small audience.
It is important to know that a series of books are of interest to publishers. Of course, this is a controversial statement, but if you write a good book with a prospect of continuation, then you have more chances to be published - so practice shows.
When the book is ready, it is important to provide it with a quality cover letter, which will indicate the volume in the author's sheets (1 al. = 40000 characters), the genre, the audience for which the book is designed, and a brief description. The last stage is the dispatch of the manuscript to publishers. If this e-mail - the book should be archived, if you send a printed version of the manuscript, it should be typed on the computer, and not by hand, otherwise it will not even be read.
It is important to believe in your success, but at the same time look critically at your creations. If you are happy to read friends and relatives, but repeatedly ignored by publishers and editors of various publications, perhaps it makes sense to look for another occupation and not waste time on something that does not bring significant results.