How to Not Listen to Your Writing Teacher

It used to be that people had to go through a complex process to get items published by a publishing company and had to please certain standards that the publishing company had. Some writing teachers of today like to push that idea still and sometimes we can ignore them. Why? With the World Wide Web and tons of resources at our hands we can do things not status quo and perhaps even sell them. It can be affordable too!

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• internet connection
• any type of computer that can connect to the internet
• writing ideas

1. There are some outlets online that don't care what your writing teacher told you to do. That's right, they will publish it anyway as long as it is creative enough or informative and generally has good grammar. Places that pay you exist, mostly by page view, but it can accumulate to extra money. Some examples are: Triond, E-How, and Associated Content.
   Triond is a little more picky than the other two, but it generally accepts content as long as it obeys the good grammar rule closely.
   (Helium offers pay too, but I have heard some complaints about it--be careful).
   There are likely more places, but I can't go through and test them all. A quick internet search may bring up more results.
2. Use a free publishing service for books. These allow you to express yourself in any way and you will never have to obey all the rules the writing teacher told you. Try Createspace.com--for quick insertion into Amazon, Cafepress, or a new one I found called Lulu.com. The only bad thing is that you are in charge of your own publicity for the most part and an audience must be found that will appreciate your efforts for it to sell.
3. Write e-books. These can be distributed on the web and sold for a good amount of money. One highly acclaimed site for e-books is Lulu.com.
4. You can also choose to write for free with possible income at places such as Blogger.com, Hubpages.com, Squidoo, and Yousaytoo.com. Also remember, writing on totally free sites can also be plugs for your own writing like your books published for free--as long as you aren't writing a spam type plug.
5. In addition, you can publish e-books for free. These can also help to sell any self-created book or contain a web address for a pay per view site you happen to have an article that relates to the e-book.
6. Get your own website. Writing for your own site is generally an non-paid experience, but it can also be useful for getting publicity for your helpful articles on pay per view sites and selling your books.
7. You can also try to find someone who generally unbiased and kind enough to try out publishing your book and put it up for sale or perhaps for magazines that perhaps will give all writing a chance--but finding kind-hearted publications and publishers are few and far between. Most of them decide what they want and how they want it written so far in advance they will reject anything that doesn't fit their mold. It can be something that people would be interested in, but they won't care based on their self-determined standards of quality.