SRATE journal · 2010 · 20 citations · 0 references
EducationCommunicationEnglish WritingManuscript StudiesWriting InstructionAcademic WritingProfessional WritingWriting DevelopmentWriting ProcessWriting SkillsProfessional Writing SkillsTopic TheoryWriting For PublicationWriting In Professional Disciplines
W for publication is exciting. The more you write, the more you are forced to think through the process, dissect the components, and then synthesize new entities. But as you are getting started first and foremost think of yourself as a professional writer. Your job is to communicate information and potentially inspire other people to act. For most writers the most difficult part of publishing is generating a good topic. Many aspiring writers share a concern regarding how to generate publishable topics. If it were known, even the most experienced of writers share this concern; in fact, some of the most prolific writers worry more about this than do novice writers.