I mean a real writer who gets paid by established publishers and magazines directly for the writing, with a byline and 3 and 4 digit checks that come regularly in the mail. This wonderful lifestyle is alive and attainable. I was an unknown, and started on a kitchen table on Saturdays, and worked my way up to full time cover stories in slick magazines, and ongoing book projects with various royalty publishers.

Remember the lifestyle advantage:

While books on writing push the idea of fame, this can happen, but if you get the ego out of the way, youll also find an enchanting lifestyle goes along with this home business. Now I work full time by a warm fire in the winter and out in the sunshine in the summer, choosing my own hours. Ive traveled to Pacific Northwest islands, Monets Garden in France, South Africa, and interviewed bestselling authors and an academy award-winning movie producer.

For those even more ambitious, there are also brand new opportunities for starting niche micro publishing companies with the bootstrapping method of starting with very little money up front.

How?

First: Start the ball rolling towards your goal! Once you start the ball rolling, AND KEEP IT ROLLING, things just begin to happen. I had zero connections to movie producers, bestselling authors, nor travel to France. Once I focused on my goal, the opportunities came to me.

Second: Keep going. Regardless of rejections, keep going. Try another magazine, a new approach, a different angle.

Third: Network with others who succeed. There is a huge network of resources that will show you where to land that first small but paying travel piece, how to make your own real-looking hardbound book to test it on the open market, how and where its advisable to write for free, (and where you should absolutely avoid it), how to create and strengthen a unique writers voice that readers cant resist and want to hear more from.

Barbara Adams
http://www.BarbaraBerstAdams.com