Since leaving university, and before, I have considered how I can use my degree in the real world. Ideally I'd like to work for a short story magazine. However such things, and again Star Trek is my reference, may not exist any more. So while the magazine depicted in 'Far Beyond the Stars' may have existed in the 1950s I doubt such a thing would be around today.
Reviewing is something I'm looking into. Reviewing may not be a way to make money necessarily but it does mean that an author has to provide you with a copy of their book. For me as an avid reader this is a wonderful thing. Then over time I should be able to develop a name for myself. That, I think, is the important thing to learn about writing, that each time you write you are developing your trade.
Reviewing is an especially interesting form of writing. Almost anything reviewed will probably have been reviewed before. Not only will some people find a book excellent while others find the same book rubbish, but they may have these opposite opinions for precisely the same reasons.
Raymond Chandler said that writers have 'a million words of crap to get out of their system.' I must be well on my way. If you are writing keep at it and finish something. - I haven't finished my novel yet so do as I say not as I do.
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