Very good tips!Thanks .
how to become a columnist?
Dear Venkataramani,
Simple answer for your query….To become a columnist you must know how to write.
Everyone has passions and opinions that they like to share with others. If you’ve always dreamed of taking your chatter beyond the office water cooler, and maybe even getting paid for it, the time has never been better to identify a target audience and start writing your own column.
Even if you know how to write, you need a thick skin to succeed.
“You need the courage to submit your story and find out how good or bad you are." If you think it gets any easier for professional writers, you’re absolutely wrong.Taking criticism is difficult. You put yourself on the line every time you submit something to an editor.
An inexperienced author sent his first novel to a publisher with a note that read, “The characters in this book are purely fictitious and bear no resemblance whatever to anyone living or dead.”
The publisher responded quickly with “And that’s exactly what’s wrong with it!”
You need a thick skin to succeed.
Writing is hard work. There’s the story of a writer who dies and goes to Heaven. St. Peter says to the writer, “Before I show you Heaven, let me give you a tour of Hell.” As they enter Hell, they see hundreds of writers, bent over their keyboards, slaving away, sweating, discouraged, working like crazy and just plain miserable.
Then, St. Peter and the writer go back to Heaven. After seeing Hell, the writer can’t wait to gaze upon paradise. But, the writer is shocked when he gets to Heaven. The writers in heaven are bent over their keyboards, slaving away, sweating, discouraged, working like crazy and miserable, too.
The writer is perplexed. “What’s the difference between Heaven and Hell?” he asks.
St. Peter responds: “In Heaven you get published!”
But, even after you’re published the criticism can be brutal.
Mark Twain, commenting on author Henry James, said, “It is the kind of book that, once you put it down, you can’t pick it up again.”
That’s brutal criticism.
But, some writers persevere and achieve their goals. There was a young man who professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define “great” he said, “I want to write stuff the whole world will read…stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level…that will make them cry and scream!”
He succeeded. He works for Microsoft, writing error messages.
You need to be careful what you wish for.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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