What kinds of writing?
This is an excellent question. Depending on your genre you may want to explore a number of different kinds of writing to develop your craft. One of the best ways to tighten your writing, and prepare for the queries and summaries necessary to market your writing to editors and agents, is to develop your skills as an article writer. The tightness of the writing required for an article is excellent preparation for writing back cover copy. How much writing must I do? I hope you didn’t really ask that question! As a writer your passion should be crafting words. However, if you mean to ask how much writing you need to do before your craft is at the level of publication that will depend on your experience, your natural gift and possibly the topic. For academic writing you will need to establish credentials more than craft. For creative writing you will need to spend time observing how others create an image with their words and then work at it yourself. It won’t come instantly but it will com
