I am studying bsc(MEC'S) final year. I have passion for reading novels and writing Short stories and poems. I dont know what to do next?
Hello,
There are lot of options you can pursue:
- Editor-There wouldn't be much of a book industry without editors to clean up everyone's mess. Copy editors comb through a text to improve the style, clarity, grammar, and accuracy. Content editors and developmental editors take an author's ramblings and turn it into an actual story. Become an editor, and you'll get to spend your workday saving manuscripts and inserting Oxford commas to your heart's delight.
- Archivists-"Archivist" sounds like some kind of wizard job out of a George R.R. Martin novel, but it's a real career that you can be a part of. Archivists work to assess and preserve archives, which can be anything from ancient manuscripts to postcards and diaries to digital files and analog film. Archivists are in demand in museums, universities, hospitals, libraries, corporations, and everywhere in between.
- Library agent- Literary agents and managers sell their authors' books to publishers, and without them, the publishing industry just doesn't happen. If you're a people person who loves to read and then tell everyone about the great thing you just read, you might be a high-power literary agent in the making.
- Book scout- Yes, there is a real job called "book scout," and yes, you get to run around scouting for books. Book scouts will work for agents, publishers, or film studios. Basically, their job is to scout out the next big thing, so foreign publishers can pick up the rights.
- Translator- If you've ever tried to run a whole paragraph through Google Translate, you know just how invaluable a human translator is. Literary translators aren't just foreign language dictionaries, they're storytellers who reinterpret a text in a whole new language. It's a creative profession, especially when it comes to idioms that have no translation
- Author- This is not a career for the faint of heart, but someone has to sit down and write all those novels and short stories and memoirs to begin with. And why not you? The only problem is that, unless you're a reality TV star, you probably have to write a whole manuscript before you can hope to get a book deal. So if you want to be an author, get to writing!