Making money from fiction is a very difficult task. You have to be an exceptionally good writer, and a publisher has to believe that your work can be sold. If you are the world’s best writer, but you produce work that (for whatever reason) people will not buy, your fiction will never get published.
Printing costs are enormously expensive, so a publisher looks at a manuscript like a business deal. If that publisher has a chance of making money from your work, your work will then become a commodity to be sold.
Publishing your manuscript is a romantic notion, but the reality of all situations in the publishing world is that it can take years to get your work published, and you will have to make creative and personal sacrifices to get there.
This is where most writer’s fail. You are faced with no money and no immediate hope of getting any of your work published in a paying venue. Now, you are faced with the reality of having to take a job to pay bills. Your job takes all of your free time, and you don’t have anytime to write.
If you are like most people, you might end up with a spouse, kids, job, and other commitments. After work, you are too tired to write. You have to find time to spend with the family. You should workout. There are a ton of excuses not to write.
I always feel that writing is much like exercise or even meditation. You stop doing it because of time, but once you get back into it, it feels great. You find that you truly do have time for it.
Try writing one line on the first day, two lines on the second day, and so on. If you can write 200 words a day, you’ll have a manuscript by the end of the year.
For me, the more I write, the more I am able to write.
How about you?
