| Writing for Quick Cash
Loriann Hoff Oberlin
AMACOM
ISBN: 0-8144-7199-4
Non-Fiction, Writing
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady |
What is the key to actually making money with your writing? According to Writing for Quick Cash, the answer is perseverance, planning, and putting pen to paper.
So many individuals want to become writers. They know that they have something to say but aren’t really sure what to do next. They write an article, a short story, a poem, or a book and send it off to every magazine or publisher they can find. After months of no replies or worse yet a desk full of rejection letters, they get discouraged and give up on their dream. Others never even get a word written on paper before they get discouraged and give up.
Writing for Quick Cash states that there is another alternative. Want to be writers need to continually practice their skills so that their writing improves. They need to build up their clips so that they can move onto bigger projects. Most importantly though, they have to learn to match their writing to suit what a particular editor wants to read.