I'll have to be honest and say I don't know much at all about today's hijacker Sydney Aaliyah. She first fell into my radar during the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. She reveals bits and pieces of herself in her blog posts. Like from what I gather on her blog she lives and works in China. There must be a wealth of story fodder in that. In any case, if you want to learn more about Sydney you'll have to visit her blog Happiness, Passion, Love & Faith. In this guest spot Sydney ruminates on writing careers.
I am a Hijacker. What? Be careful what you ask for, I guess. Ok, well, here we go.
Looking for Direction – Writing Careers
I figured that giving the opportunity to reach an audience considerable larger then my own, I would seek some advice on writing careers. I have been researching careers in writing for some time now. And, all I need is something to tide me over until I become a famous author. The choices are a little confusing or maybe I am lazy, but they didn’t seem to find a job that quite suited me. You be the judge?
Ghost Writer - I live my life now doing all the hard work and watching someone else take the credit. And, I get paid for it, but not nearly enough and the person I work for gets paid a hell of a lot more, so I couldn't do that with something as precious to me as the creative words I write. Even if the idea is completely someone else’s, I don’t think this is the career for me.
Editor - If you look through my blog, you would quickly come to the conclusion that editing may not be my forte. I have typos, and bad sentence structure and I have no clue where the appropriate place is for this comma, or that comma. I just don't see what editors see in order to make someone’s writing better. (Should that be s’ or ‘s) Ask me if there is hole in the plot or if the story doesn't flow or if there is a confusing dialogue, I can recognize that. But, don't ask me which version of the word amoeba to use. Did you even know there was two ways to spell ameba?
Copywriter – To tell you the truth, I am not quite sure what a copywriter actually does. From what I have learned, a copywriter writes sales copy for websites and brochures and such. Well, I don not like sales people. Pushy people who try and get me to buy something that I can’t afford and I don’t need. I am not a sales person. If I like a product I will buy it. No amount of persuasive language is going to make me want to buy it more.
Blog Writer – You mean, I am supposed to get paid to do this. Where is my check? I have been writing blog posts for over 6 months, now and haven’t’ seen a dime. Yeah, well it has been for my own blog and I have no money to pay myself, but why would I waste all this great content on someone else's blog. (Yes, I recognize the irony in that last statement).
SEO Specialist - I have read numerous articles, read blog post, seen video seminars (waste of an hour of my life) and still I have no clue what it means. I am a smart girl. But, seriously, have you seen articles about
Search Engine Optimization. They tell you to do this and this and then they say, but you don’t really need to do anything different. I am so confused and I am sure you are, too.
Bonus points for anyone who can explain it to me?
I am probably ruining my chances of ever being offered a writing job by this post, but I am just kidding. At this point, if you pay me, I will write whatever the heck you want me to write. I will have plenty of time to be picky when I become a famous author.
Any other writing careers out there you think I should consider?
