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Tony A. Grayson, Goodreads Author, earned the highest level expert author status at EZINE articles. His articles can be read for free at: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tony... . Tony also posts daily to the Worldshapers1 blog at: http://graysonta84.wordpress.com/. Find his two published novels and a How To Guidebook on Goodreads.
The Starter Business
What and How to Start
Most people who decide to learn how to start a business first develop a plan that will produce a product or service that they will either own or represent. Those who have the better chance to be successful are very passionate about that product or service. In other words, they will not quit when they encounter obstacles to the success that they have planned. Many business owners consider their business to be a continuous learning experience, or a journey. Aside from appealing to those who appreciate adventure, that view clearly communicates that no plan can be complete enough to predict every challenge that a business owner will face. Whether planned well or if challenges are only a lucky few and easily managed, all businesses succeed in order to survive. The Federal Tax code recognizes a business to be legitimate if it is profitable for three out of every five years.
Learn by Doing
The Federal Tax code is an excellent and understandable guide to consult when planning a business. Specifically, IRS Publication 17 acquaints business owners of every sort on how to conduct accounting that is acceptable for Federal income tax purposes. It will help you to appreciate some advantages and pitfalls of certain kinds of businesses. Physical products must be created. That requires resources, an assembly line, employees, a physical location, packaging, a market, and a way to ship the product. Depending on the product, specific Federal, State, and Local regulations and licenses may be required. An accountant, a lawyer, an office manager, and other professionals may be necessary. If you produce more product than you sell in a year, you may have to pay a local jurisdiction an inventory tax on top of the cost of producing too much product. This is a lot to take in for a business owner who has never owned a business before.
An Information Product
Most businesses require promotion, the written word, to acquaint customers with their product. Since that is a necessary step in business ownership, why not begin the business with an information product? Especially when the information is in electronic form, there are no raw materials, no assembly line, no physical location, and there is very little need to hire an employee. An e-book can be written, promoted, and sold inexpensively, yet profitably. Plus, it is a repeatable product. Write one, learn from it, and write a better one. Continue to promote and sell all of them, for they are a product line of the writer. You may not see how writing a book or any information product will support your business plan. But, you will learn to write, to promote, and to handle cash flow by practicing with information that is crafted and sold as a product. The written word will support most types of businesses. Your starter business can evolve from an e-document business into something more complex. You can evolve from the owner of a starter business to become the experienced owner of a major business. Try it. Tony Alan GraysonA Voice from New Mill Creek: The MethodistsGoodnight PaigeHow Tony Wrote and Published Two Novels
Most people who decide to learn how to start a business first develop a plan that will produce a product or service that they will either own or represent. Those who have the better chance to be successful are very passionate about that product or service. In other words, they will not quit when they encounter obstacles to the success that they have planned. Many business owners consider their business to be a continuous learning experience, or a journey. Aside from appealing to those who appreciate adventure, that view clearly communicates that no plan can be complete enough to predict every challenge that a business owner will face. Whether planned well or if challenges are only a lucky few and easily managed, all businesses succeed in order to survive. The Federal Tax code recognizes a business to be legitimate if it is profitable for three out of every five years.
Learn by Doing
The Federal Tax code is an excellent and understandable guide to consult when planning a business. Specifically, IRS Publication 17 acquaints business owners of every sort on how to conduct accounting that is acceptable for Federal income tax purposes. It will help you to appreciate some advantages and pitfalls of certain kinds of businesses. Physical products must be created. That requires resources, an assembly line, employees, a physical location, packaging, a market, and a way to ship the product. Depending on the product, specific Federal, State, and Local regulations and licenses may be required. An accountant, a lawyer, an office manager, and other professionals may be necessary. If you produce more product than you sell in a year, you may have to pay a local jurisdiction an inventory tax on top of the cost of producing too much product. This is a lot to take in for a business owner who has never owned a business before.
An Information Product
Most businesses require promotion, the written word, to acquaint customers with their product. Since that is a necessary step in business ownership, why not begin the business with an information product? Especially when the information is in electronic form, there are no raw materials, no assembly line, no physical location, and there is very little need to hire an employee. An e-book can be written, promoted, and sold inexpensively, yet profitably. Plus, it is a repeatable product. Write one, learn from it, and write a better one. Continue to promote and sell all of them, for they are a product line of the writer. You may not see how writing a book or any information product will support your business plan. But, you will learn to write, to promote, and to handle cash flow by practicing with information that is crafted and sold as a product. The written word will support most types of businesses. Your starter business can evolve from an e-document business into something more complex. You can evolve from the owner of a starter business to become the experienced owner of a major business. Try it. Tony Alan GraysonA Voice from New Mill Creek: The MethodistsGoodnight PaigeHow Tony Wrote and Published Two Novels
The Reader Becomes a Writer
A Reader Becomes a Writer.
Many fiction writers begin as passionate readers of a specific genre of fiction. A dedicated genre reader will acquire and develop a taste for a certain style of writing. The tempo in a well-crafted story will pique their interest, and compel them to turn the next page. A spark can be lit in such a reader when he or she (they) realize that they know what they want. The avid reader who knows that will embark on a campaign to experience the craft of every writer who might satisfy their discerning taste for a story, well told. Sometimes, when a sophisticated reader examines the writer’s biography, they get the thought: I could do this! Writers are everyday people.
Why Does Someone Become a Fiction Writer?
Many readers take a chance at writing for the wrong reason. Fiction Writers are portrayed as mysterious and reclusive people who have found a way to step out of an average life to enjoy quick fame and fast fortune. A reader who reads to have a means to escape a dull world is most susceptible to the allure of turning to writing in order to complete their own escape. However, successful fiction writers are disciplined in their craft. They know for whom they write, and they spend much energy trying to reach a particular class of reader, just as the dedicated reader seeks the craft of a particular genre of writer. So, there it is. A fervent reader who knows what they want to read also has the ability to recognize a well-written story. They might become a fiction writer in order to advance the art, because they can.
Discipline and Perseverance.
The reader who will select, purchase, and read a fiction novel every week has discipline. That reader views a novel as a deserved treat to be savored. They find the time to read, and will read faster if they must, in order to experience the jolt of a plot twist, to imagine the panoramic view of a wondrous setting, or to mentally smell the fragrance of the most discerning perfume. A dedicated reader will adopt a character as a member of their family, and they will weep when that character suffers the sting of a heartbreak, and doubly so if the character was innocent and unaware that it might happen.
Do it.
Writers do not dash off a front line novel on the back of a napkin, and give that to a grateful publisher. Publishers do not have editors who will publish unrefined work without editing it first. Veteran writers develop a routine as they learn what works for them. Then, they repeat that routine. Nearly every writer appreciates the power of review and revision. Develop a plot. Create a main character, the protagonist. Place that character in a descriptive setting. Plant an adversary, an antagonist who will do everything possible, and many things impossible, to stop the protagonist from completing the story that contains the plot. Write when your mind is sharp. Create the story as fast as your fingers can fly! Be disciplined. Try to write a manageable number of pages a day, and stay true to the plot. Then, at a quiet time, when you can be critical of your work, review what you wrote, and revise it. This is how a writer begins a novel and completes it hundreds of pages later. This is also how a dedicated reader can begin to become a fiction writer.
Many fiction writers begin as passionate readers of a specific genre of fiction. A dedicated genre reader will acquire and develop a taste for a certain style of writing. The tempo in a well-crafted story will pique their interest, and compel them to turn the next page. A spark can be lit in such a reader when he or she (they) realize that they know what they want. The avid reader who knows that will embark on a campaign to experience the craft of every writer who might satisfy their discerning taste for a story, well told. Sometimes, when a sophisticated reader examines the writer’s biography, they get the thought: I could do this! Writers are everyday people.
Why Does Someone Become a Fiction Writer?
Many readers take a chance at writing for the wrong reason. Fiction Writers are portrayed as mysterious and reclusive people who have found a way to step out of an average life to enjoy quick fame and fast fortune. A reader who reads to have a means to escape a dull world is most susceptible to the allure of turning to writing in order to complete their own escape. However, successful fiction writers are disciplined in their craft. They know for whom they write, and they spend much energy trying to reach a particular class of reader, just as the dedicated reader seeks the craft of a particular genre of writer. So, there it is. A fervent reader who knows what they want to read also has the ability to recognize a well-written story. They might become a fiction writer in order to advance the art, because they can.
Discipline and Perseverance.
The reader who will select, purchase, and read a fiction novel every week has discipline. That reader views a novel as a deserved treat to be savored. They find the time to read, and will read faster if they must, in order to experience the jolt of a plot twist, to imagine the panoramic view of a wondrous setting, or to mentally smell the fragrance of the most discerning perfume. A dedicated reader will adopt a character as a member of their family, and they will weep when that character suffers the sting of a heartbreak, and doubly so if the character was innocent and unaware that it might happen.
Do it.
Writers do not dash off a front line novel on the back of a napkin, and give that to a grateful publisher. Publishers do not have editors who will publish unrefined work without editing it first. Veteran writers develop a routine as they learn what works for them. Then, they repeat that routine. Nearly every writer appreciates the power of review and revision. Develop a plot. Create a main character, the protagonist. Place that character in a descriptive setting. Plant an adversary, an antagonist who will do everything possible, and many things impossible, to stop the protagonist from completing the story that contains the plot. Write when your mind is sharp. Create the story as fast as your fingers can fly! Be disciplined. Try to write a manageable number of pages a day, and stay true to the plot. Then, at a quiet time, when you can be critical of your work, review what you wrote, and revise it. This is how a writer begins a novel and completes it hundreds of pages later. This is also how a dedicated reader can begin to become a fiction writer.
