What have you done to become a writer?

Before I wrote a book, I spent more than ten years writing. I have maintained three blogs and written various articles with the length of 1500-3000 words. Besides, I never miss the opportunity to write articles for the company magazine. I finally wrote a lot of things. Whenever I sit down to write, I can easily write 1000-3000 words on any topic I choose.

I seek feedback: I encourage readers to comment and grade my articles. Slowly, over the years, I know what can arouse readers' interest. I found my own shortcomings and tried to correct them, and began to give play to my advantages.

I keep improving my language ability. Although my vocabulary and language ability are better than most of my peers, I am still learning. Most people know as much about English (I only write English) as they did in high school; I made a conscious effort to improve my mastery of this language. Even today, if I don't know the usage of a phrase or word, I will look it up in the dictionary instead of simply avoiding it.

The books I have read, including books on general themes and books on writing, have many factors that can represent excellent writing style. Many of them are unknown to ordinary people. If someone thinks that he/she can become an excellent writer without reading or studying great works, he/she is incredibly naive. I have developed the habit of reading since I was a child, so as I grow older, I find it easy to turn from reading popular novels to more serious topics.

I changed my priorities and began to cherish time. I gave up watching TV almost forever. I will never watch TV at home again. In the past three and a half years, I only watched two TV series, one episode a week (online streaming media). I seldom watch movies on the computer, but I watch movies with my fiancee at the local cinema on weekends. This change alone has given me a lot of time to write. I no longer do all kinds of "killing time" activities. You will never realize how much time you can save once you work hard. Almost all my free time is spent reading something valuable or doing something helpful to my writing (including my time on Quora). I don't gossip in the workplace. I always take a book with me at lunch or dinner (if I am alone). Besides reading and writing, I also like playing the guitar (playing for nearly 19 years). I only play on weekends or when I miss it very much now. Everyone has 24 hours. What matters is how you use it.

I learned from my mistakes. Although I got a lot of positive feedback, it was all buried because I knew nothing about the publishing process and no friends had written books. Writing a book is even less than one-third of the work required for publication. My first book as a writer was a fiasco, although I wrote a book and devoted all my efforts, although it was loved by readers; That's because I know nothing about this system. My second book is a non-fiction management guide. It takes less energy than my first book, but it performs better. Almost a year later, it still ranks among the top 65,438+000 books of its kind in Amazon.

I participated in the process of self-publishing, such as content editing, proofreading, cover design, lead writing, typesetting, establishing web pages, establishing social media pages, publicity and networking. I didn't know the importance of these activities before I published the book. In the past few years, I have done all this work by myself, and also outsourced some important work, such as editing and proofreading (these work must be done by a third party because the authors will not notice their mistakes).

I no longer seek support from the wrong people. I am the first author of my whole family. However, I can hardly find the support of my family. This may have something to do with cultural values, not anything else. Most of my family members are indifferent to my efforts, which makes me very depressed. Not surprisingly, many of them don't read either. They are more interested in pestering me not to get married, even though I am 30 years old (I think many Indians feel this way). Except for a cousin who is very supportive, almost no one in my family supports me. Instead, I got the support of several good friends and fiancee. Now, I never talk about my writing with my family unless they ask me.

I no longer pursue short-term gains. Every novice writer has great dreams before publishing. Nine times out of ten, she will come back disappointed. I'm no longer disappointed or