Fresh Starts and New Beginnings

When I first started out as a writer (and a reviewer, though that came later) I didn’t know anything about the internet at all. My career started the minute I stepped out into the world wide web.

Everything I have learned about websites, promotion, marketing, reviewing and SEO, I taught myself. I had no help from anyone. In fact, I actually enjoyed learning about things that I needed to know.

It does prove, however, that anyone can do it. I won’t say that old cliche, though: If I can do it, anyone can! It may seem rather a huge mountain to climb at the beginning but it does become easier, although you are continually learning all the time. I believe, that could be said about any job you do, however.

So, I had to learn how to set up a website, promote it as well as getting my name out into cyber space as the writer I professed to be. As a new writer, you are a unknown. You may think you’re good, your friends and family may do as well, but no one else does. So how do you convince everybody else that you are the next bestseller? Listed below are a few starters:

1. You have to believe in yourself and your talents
2. You have to be prepared to be critiqued, reviewed and ignored by anyone who counts.
3. You have to be prepared to accept those critiques and reviews as well as the times that you don’t exist.
4. You have to continue to write.
5. You have to continue to try.
6. You have to work every day.
7. You have to continually submit to magazines, ezines and publishers. Don’t give up!

I know there are more and if you can think of any more, then please do leave a comment.

So how did I do it? And, how did I get on?

Tune into the next post