Writer

My first goal is to become an English teacher, and I love writing, so I hope that in my spare time I could also become published as well. I know someone that was sixteen that got published not too long ago, her story was amazing as well. So after reading that in my local paper, it inspired me to push as far as I could to try to do it as well. Also, it's like a famous quote on a website said "If Stephenie Meyer can sell her crap, we can too.". No offence to Twilight Lovers, but I personally hate it. I read it long before it first got famous, and I still hated it.

Either way, the whole point of this is to say, if someone wants to be published, go for it, it IS possible.

Rose Eternal:

Just remember everyone... 99% of all manuscripts given to the publishers are rejected... There are rarely any good reasons... It's usually about not enough money/time to review them, or the publisher themself is very subjective about something in your story =)
Just found this stuff out myself, and wanted to share it to all the aspiring authors...

Where exactly did you find those statistics? Because honestly, I refuse to believe that, I know a lot of non-famous people near my house that managed to get published. Maybe around 70%, at least in Canada anyway, but I really doubt it's 99%, that's a bit too elevated percentage, publishers need jobs, they don't get paid just to throw everything in the garbage. Some of them yes, but not 99% of everything they have. They would not be working if that was the case.

Hopefully I can one day write something that will be able to get published.
I'm going to college for creative writing and English, so that will help.

^ Same. I've just finished my first year at university studying creative writing.
I'd like to end up with books published left, right and centre and have them all be really successful, but as people have already mentioned, it's tough. I couldn't ever see myself being just a writer though, I'd need something else to give me the inspiration and drive to write in the first place.

I've actually decided I want to be a university lecturer in creative writing, and if I were to get something published on the side of that, then great, and if not, then I'd still be able to write anyway.

Since my last post on here I got accepted onto a brilliant Creative Writing course for university And I finally finished a novel. I'm just too lazy to edit it now.

I will get published. Just not while I'm busying myself wasting time

my story Maybe Fate Was Wrong is getting published in a loacal magazine and I am finishing off a manuscript for a book now so haopefully I will get that published as well

I'd love to be a published author but I'm not good enough.

I wanted to be an author or a scriptwriter a few years ago but I've since given up. I'm just not brave enough to enter into such an unstable career, in which the odds of making it famous are so low. I can't take that chance, so I'm going to keep my writing as a hobby instead and only seize a chance if it comes my way. It's lazy and highly un-aspirational, but that's just me.

Evil Conical Tombs:

I don t see the point in publishing anymore, all it does is make publishers and literary agents rich while killing trees.

The Internet is all we need anymore to reach people. Everyone should just publish online where other people can read for free, like we re all doing.

You shouldn t write to make a profit, you should do it because you generally want people to read what you ve written.

I really admire this but sadly I'm a traditionalist. Believe me, money is the last thing on my mind. To get my money I'm joining the police force and with that I'm happy. for me writing is bringing the joy of another world to another, to provide a literary escape, and to create another sea of word. If I could I would adore getting a book into the cannon but I doubt that'd happen, if not for a very long time. And there are always ways around killing trees without submitting to the electric revolution

I'm not published yet, but I hope in a few years I get my own book out. I can't imagine doing another profession besides writing.

I have yet to self-publish or submit anything to be published, really, but I've had that on my list of life goals since I was a child. It gives me hope when I know people who have self-published that are also Mibbians, i.e. Billie/Natalie (silk tea.) and Trist (spacejunkie) who are both fantastic writers imo with all due respect.

Anyway, I want to publish something while I'm ~*~young~*~ and not attached to anyone romantically. I feel as if once my professional life starts up and I settle down or whatever, I'll be focused on that and not my craft. At the age of 10, I was serious about wanting to be on a "top bestselling books" list, ok.

I would absolutely love to be an author. It's the ultimate dream of mine, but unfortunately with my parents they don't feel like it's realistic. I know that I should have something to fall back on, but I just want to write. That is all I want to do with my life. I could care less about anything else, except maybe web design.

I want to self-publish something first. If I ended up getting published to a housing company, though, I'd be ecstatic. I can't wait until I hold the finished product in my hands. I can't wait until people read what I write and are inspired by the story. I want to be one of those authors who inspire someone else to write.

I just want to write.

I plan on becoming published one day ^.^

Like everyone on this website, and websites like these, and people who read, and children from elementary, middle, maybe even young teenagers in high schools, who had touched a book, read it, loved it to the point where they bought a copy just to carry around and reread whenever they felt like it, and have been writing stories of their own before they've even known that they were stories -- I want to be an author, too. c: When I was around eight, I always told everyone I could that I wanted to be a "book writer" or a "story writer" and I'd be asked, "Oh, do you mean a journalist?" and I'd instantly correct them to say that I meant an author.

No one was really impressed, I think. Nobody believes me, or motivates me, or even supports me.

Still, though, I write. When I'm so depressed that I'm crying uncontrollably and have no hope or feeling of hope of anything happening right in my life/future, and I swear up and down that I'm never going to read or write again -- I'd be writing saying that I wouldn't be writing anymore, and about a few days or hours later, I'd crawl over to a book for some consolation. I haven't written a full fledged story in years - I've been RPing online on a different website for about 4 years now - but that still counts as writing, even if it's small and cramped with a dozen decorations.

Still, I want to be an author. That hasn't been pushed from my mind. Not in the least.

I've wanted to become an author since I was about 11. I'm focusing on different career paths at the moment but I still want to be a writer at some point.

kitsch:

I have yet to self-publish or submit anything to be published, really, but I've had that on my list of life goals since I was a child. It gives me hope when I know people who have self-published that are also Mibbians, i.e. Billie/Natalie (silk tea.) and Trist (spacejunkie) who are both fantastic writers imo with all due respect.

Anyway, I want to publish something while I'm ~*~young~*~ and not attached to anyone romantically. I feel as if once my professional life starts up and I settle down or whatever, I'll be focused on that and not my craft. At the age of 10, I was serious about wanting to be on a "top bestselling books" list, ok.

I was/am basically the same way. When I was younger, I was very determined to publish a book before I was eighteen for some reason (I was a weird child, shh). Obviously, that really worked out for me. And I'm working on self-publishing something at the moment when I have the time, but that's not to say it'll get done before I'm twenty-one because I'm a procrastinator and can't even do that properly, oops.

But I've been writing since I was about nine/ten and I don't even know what inspired me to start doing it, but it felt natural once I started. It's been almost, if not already, ten years and it was all I had up until about a year ago when I started pursuing photography, too. I want to be a published author, like New York's Times Bestseller kind of published author still, so that hasn't changed at all but I have a long way to go and turns out, I'm not in a rush to get there. All I know is that one day, I do want to get there.