Five Reasons to Discover Fiction Writing

The old story is that fiction writers live in poverty, that fiction writing is more of a hobby than a career in waiting. There are valid points behind that notion: plenty of people want to be a writer, rarely will a fiction writer be paid as much as a non-fiction freelance writer, and the payment for certain types of fiction, namely the short story, seem to lower every year. However, that's all about the payment, which does come to many writers.

This article offers five valid reasons to discover fiction writing, including the fact many of fiction writers do get paid, and some are paid quite well.

You can write just what you want to write:

This is the primary reason many not only write magazine or online articles, while also writing fiction. Just because you write fiction doesn't mean you cannot write in other fields. Writing fiction opens the door to creativity for any kind of writer: a poet, a novelist, a magazine writer, a copywriter.

Someone will be published:

Someone, somewhere, is published every day. That is a fact. Someone, somewhere, will never submit a story which they think isn't good. If you submit, you're ahead of many dreaming fiction writers.

Besides problems with confidence, writers think publication means the end. It's just the beginning. If you actually submit a fiction story, bad or good, you will have a better shot than someone who didn't submit.

You can dream:

Remember all those stories of rich writers getting richer with film options? There are movie deals done on novels, and even short stories. Movies may be the rising art, and fiction the one art you don't need to live in Hollywood for.

However, that is just one small aspect of dreaming. Must you always think of money? Sometimes it will come, sure, but other times it won't. Dream of things bigger than publication-like winning a major award or gaining the respect of an editor-and you will be leagues ahead of many others.

You get paid for storytelling, not perfect sentences and topics ... storytelling:

Magazine writers may bring in money, because magazine writers are in demand. But so are good storytellers. There is something big at play when you're paid for a fiction story: someone out there respects you as a creative writer. You are, actually, being paid to write something you felt you had to, or just wanted to.

Few are respected more than talented fiction writers:

Fiction writing is such a tough field because of so many who want it. Think of the great writers, names like Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and you will see the lasting legacy a fiction writer in any field, of any gender, and of any race can have on the world. They are respected; they paid their dues and became successful. You can discover fiction writing for all these reasons or more. It's a fine art which can pay you, which will be fun, and is certainly an adventure.