Becoming a professional writer has been one of the most rewarding (and challenging) goals I’ve ever met. Ghostwriters have a multiplicity of options. Whether I want to work in my pajamas as a freelance writer, act as ghostwriter to a bestselling novel, or join a team of joint venture capitalists as their in house copywriter, the possibilities for work are endless and the ceiling above my head nonexistent.
Before I was a professional writer, I was writing children’s stories for my own two children alongside a room full of tiny tots. My wife and were running a preschool at the time. She had been urging me to become a professional writer for a while, but I would barely entertain the idea. Writing children’s stories for me was more than enough.
The more I wrote, however, the more I realized that being a professional writer might very well be the air I was meant to breathe.
I dipped my toe then decided to dive. I had no specialty to speak of, I found I could write simple children’s stories, thick with rhyme rhythm and repetition as easily as I could draft a complicated white paper. Writing was almost as easy as drawing breath and a lot more fun.
My life as a professional writer was born.
It wasn’t exactly easy breezy, one-two-threezy though. I never faced a lack of ideas, or ghost writer’s block of any kind for that matter, but being a professional writer is about a lot more than just pouring words onto a page. You may not need to be be Kurt Vonnegut, but you do need a basic understanding of grammar and mechanics for even the most basic writing jobs. It money is changing hands, your work needs to be flawless.
Being a professional writer is a demanding and competitive career choice. I never stop learning. Being a great writer means you’re also an active reader, paying attention to everything under your eyes while constantly trying to extract all you can from the information.
I never stop reading and I never press pause on my learning.
I started simple. I let family and friends know I was now a professional writer. I started a blog, then another, and then put up an online portfolio. Now I spend my days writing for myself and for others. I’m a professional writer and have never been happier.
About Sean Platt
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