Careers in Writing

As you all know, I am doing this blog as part of an inquiry that I'm doing in school. One of my big topics of this project is researching different careers in the field of writing. There are three main categories in writing and they are Creative Writing, Business Writing, or Online Writing. All three are fairly specific in what you do. 

Creative writing is what we all dream of becoming. We all grow up wanting to become the new J.K Rowling. Sadly this doesn't happen to the average Joe.  Creative writing can be anything from poetry, fiction writing, plays, screenplays, TV scripts, comedy writing, and etc. This is by far my favorite career path for writing because it always anyone to use there gifts, and write whatever they choose to. It can be about serious things, or wizards and made up worlds. You are fee to be yourself. It's a very stressful field, but if you're luck enough you might just make it. Good luck!

Business Writing is the next main category of writing. This is probably the most realistic and most used types of writing. These writers are journalists, advertisers and promotional people, technical writers, speechwriters, as well as textbook writers (they have to exist, I know). These jobs are very useful and a lot more available to the average writer. The only drawback on Business Writing is that it isn't nearly as fun to write speeches and textbooks, as it is to write your own fiction fairy tale. 

The last main area in the field of writing is Online Writing. This is by far the newest area of writing. This field will soon take over because of the accessibility and ease of computing in the future. Everybody uses the Internet, whether it’s on their mobile devices or at home on the desk top. You read all sorts of things online that you don't even realize it. Someone has to do this and that's what these people are. Online writers often keep up companies websites, and create they e-mails business wide. 

That was a background of all the possibilities a writing major can have. It's a tough major to get successful, but if it's your passion then go for it, what do you have to lose. It would be amazing if we could all be New York Times Best Sellers, but we also need online journalist and bloggers, as well as textbook authors. The options are limitless.