1. Get a car. Must have functioning windows.
2. If you have a house with a garage, then fantastic. If not then buy a hosepipe.
3. Close garage door/connect hosepipe to exhaust.
4. Start engine
5. Count to a billion.
Seriously though;
First of all realize that your degree will mean squat.
Grammar and punctuation, improve it, being lazy with it is not acceptable.
Avoid sending cold emails. I delete most of mine without even looking at them.
Realise that a passion for the subject matter isn't as important as the passion for writing.
If you're not funny, then the chances are that you won't have your piece accepted these days. Alot of mags thesedays are looking for short funny pieces.
Read the magazine that you're writing for first to get a feel for the style that they use. Then adapt your current style to it, while at the same time keeping your own personality and voice. In fact just read alot.
Avoid writing more than 400 hundred words unless you are asked to do so.
Expect criticism, in fact learn to like it.
It's a good idea to start a blog even if it's just for practicing. Forums are too comfortable, people will say your stuff is good, when in truth it's absolute crap. Like the majority of the poetry on this site.
If you've been thinking about it for two years and still haven't done it. Then don't bother, that is probably what I'd say to anybody really about anything. Last edited on Thursday November 2nd, 2006 12:34 by Peacemaker
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