If you are certain that writing is your ultimate passion among the many that haunt us night and day. You probably can succeed at a writing business. Perhaps you read the great masters of the craft like Aravind Adiga in recent times. Also have a college degree in literature or writing, at least a course somewhere to get the technicalities right. While interest in writing may come to many like a flash of inspiration perhaps, survival through the maze may require advanced skills.

How to develop writing skill

If you are already doing a job like in banking or teaching but have an avid interest in writing and working from home due to family constraints or health problems, writing could be an initial part timeactivity. The job provides connections that you could exploit to further the writing career and even do a short course by correspondence or online to sharpen the lessons you learned way back in school. Mental preparation is very important. You do realize of course that the immense possibilities of writing online is a gift of the internet that developed as recently as the 1990s though print media has ruled maybe for two centuries in some form.

Besides, art and culture like drama and cinema heavily depend upon writing skills. Writing is basically a lonely activity unless you belonged to a group and that is feasible too within a like minded circle. Who are your best friends? The dictionary and thesaurus of course though the scenario has changed electronically. With software, maybe e-books haunt your consciousness now that online publishing wields a great deal of clout.

Are you sure you are a genuine writer in which case you have a portfolio of published writings as recommendation? The basic skills in writing would suffice along with the inspiration for starting the dream journey, hoping to improve as you travel the sometimes lonely but always challenging highway.

After you have clarified the intimate questions deep in the soul, it is time to set up office preferably in a separate room to avoid the clutter of family life and howling children. Desk and chair, computer and printer, telephone etc. They all require expense. Where will the budget come from? Does the family approve? Would you sustain the write passion through the months and years or is it merely a passing fad? Are you familiar with computers and the internet, word processing software and the writing scenario? Do you have any experience in the field like in technical writing? Do you happen to be a specialist writer like in legal or medical transcription? Do you know the niches like finance, politics, sports, business and entertainment? Writing for newsletters, websites, white papers, copy writing, blogs and annual reports would become part of the paraphernalia.

Are you willing and prepared? A word about deadlines! Like the newspaper and media industry that you witness daily, harsh deadlines squeeze in every little bit of energy you possess. Nobody seems to wait in an over busy world and clients would be screaming through the phone and social media for your submissions. Then could come several rewrites of your labored over piece. It may all be satisfying in the end but at considerable expense of time and energy besides ideas of course. Join this writing business or writing universe  if you will!