Writing Does Not Always Mean Writing Literature

For those who did not read the classics, and cannot recognize staunched literary quotes, all is not lost when willing to find a voice within the writing of their own.  Many genres are open to writers with a particular skill set that is not literary, necessarily.  Here are a few niches where the authors who fit into these genres, can find life-long, financially rewarding careers through inclusion of specific elements sought by the publisher and the readership.

• Horror
• Erotica
• Romance Novels - with publishers like Harlequin
• Non-fiction How-to as a Professional in Specific Topic 
• Travel Writing
• Environmental

Adherence to grammar is not the same thing as literature, as occasionally assumed.  Many great authors of literature made grammatical errors which came out more as artistic decisions rather than errors, as these notable choices led to distinct voice in the writing, or soul in the prose.  The niches, listed here, require writers to adhere to recognizable aspects within the writing that readers of these niche groups look for; even then, however, there are rule breakers who surprise and astonish their readership with fresh, new, and different writing.

Twittering for Authors

I recently set my intention to switch the amount of time I spent pinning on Pinterest to tweeting on Twitter.  I was blessed to have been sent a tweet from author-most-high Margaret Atwood!!  I immediately signed up and clicked 'YES' to the question about having her tweets sent to me SMS. SMS meant receiving the tweets as direct text messages.  I was sure I wouldn't miss a tweet.  I didn't, but I began to delete them 4 at a time without even reading them.  Could Margaret Atwood get annoying? No!!  She's just signed her MaddAddam series with HBO and her tweets were updates like, "Met with HBO directors today - lovely people!"  Although she didn't write 'lovely'.  Every topic caught my eye, like her real-live text from the Book Festival in England's Author Downs (or where-ever it was held buzzing with authors like Atwood and
Gaiman).  But.. I began having to sift through her texts to get to people I really had messaged that day.  Lost in 20 tweet-texts, I'd missed my son and his girlfriend asking to meet up.  Damn!  

Long story short, I KNOW why Margaret Atwood is signed with HBO and can basically do or write anything she wants... she tweets like a champion - twenty, thirty a day - no 40.  Sure, she's a brilliant author - one twitterer texted (me and Margaret) that she'd destroy herself if the series doesn't turn out as good as the books - but she is just as brilliant at twittering.  Somewhere there's a brilliant author who can learn from this experience I'm having (because I can't figure out how to turn Margaret back to tweets on twitter and out of my SMS texts).  What I've experienced is that by upping your tweets - and texting them - people respond.  It's life content not web content, magically.  Write great books, always your best, but for god sakes this SMS twittering could be met the best response - readers reading the books!  There's hope, anyway.  And wow that English book fest sure sounded fun.  Although meeting up with my kids would have been great too - its just that I'm sure Margaret has figured out both in her twitters and texts - she probably uses the Lists feature, too.  And I am sure, from this experience that Margaret pays someone - or has someone with her - a small, walking fish, perhaps, who twitters every passing whim or maybe just tweets us every time she raised her sceptor, I don't know.  Anyway, with HBO now at the MaddAddam helm, I'm sure we'll be pinning characters and costumes with her sensitive fans avoiding self-destruction.