There are many directions you can go when you want to write for a living. Some go the freelance route writing for magazines and for online publications, and they find that this is what fulfills them the most. Others go into technical writing and find the pay so good that they don’t care to do anything else. However, many writers, no matter what they do to pay the bills, think about writing a book someday. If this is an itch for you, you do have to know how to go about getting a novel published into today’s publishing world.
The first step in getting a novel published is, of course, writing it. Though it might sound easy enough if you have the drive to do it, most don’t realize that this is harder than they think.