Post your career goals

[Novelist1982]

I am striving to be an established writer of young adult books.

My first published novel was "Ariona: The Bounty Hunter", an interactive choice-based adventure story.

I have written two other 120+ page stories: one is currently being represented by a literary agency, the other will be in the near future.

I plan to continue writing 2-3 books a year in hopes that my fantasy and thriller young adult stories will find a place on the market.
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I hope people take advantage of this thread, and use it to state their career goals and perhaps the steps they will take to achieve their goals.

[Terra]

Jesus.

Another asshole from Missouri.

[MarioRPG]

I want to be a (good) lawyer.

There's my goal.

[AChimp]

You are Ariona, the daughter of a murdered blacksmith, who has sworn to avenge the death of her father. You are an established bounty hunter who is currently on the trail of a man named Kragil, wanted in three towns for selling deadly tonic to sick villagers. You have been hired by a past victim who barely survived the poisonous concoction, and to collect the hefty reward, you must return Kragil to the Town of Kinsley, dead or alive. In this quest, you must survive the hardships of hazardous encounters that a bounty hunter must face. From a fast-paced pub brawl to a graveyard massacre, the seemingly routine hunt turns into a race against time as you must prepare yourself for an epic encounter against the necromancer Ludwig von Aldon and his Army of the Dead. The fate of Middle Earth is in your hands.

:lol :lol :lol

The fate of Middle Earth is in your hands.

[Emu]

Isn't that, uh... plagarism?

[RaNkeri]

Pretty much yeah, unless he states that his book is a LotR spinoff and gives the profit to the person who currently helds rights for it.

[Esuohlim]

I bet all 13 of the used copies available are from dissatisfied customers.

[Archduke Tips]

I run down the street yelling "TAKE MY PEE" and then I eat tacos.

[maggiekarp]

I want to be happy with lots of money :D

[executioneer]

i want to drive a busload of high school kids off a cliff, then jump out of the door with a parachute on

[camacazio]

physics guy

[Archduke Tips]

Captain of Shrimp Farm World!

[Emu]

Russo you know that being random isn't funny right

[Archduke Tips]

Emu Farmer! lol

[Fathom Zero]

I had an encounter with a vicious emu, once upon a time at the Cincinnati Zoo.

[Archduke Tips]

I saw a video today on Discovery that showed an emu running into a fence and falling over. It was hilarious.

By the way, Novelist1982, what literary agency is representing your books?

[mburbank]

I should very much like to be an Hippo.

[sadie]

my career goal is no have no career.

[Ihach]

your goal is to mould young minds and you know it missy! >:

[Mockery]

I'd like to find an apartment to live in. Yeah, that seems like a good career goal. >:
http://www.i-mockery.com/blabber/?p=46

[Marc Summers]

I'd like to make video games :D

But I'd like a position that is a little more...complex than what I'm doing now...to say the least...

:(

[AChimp]

I'd like to have the fate of Middle Earth in my hands.

[MarioRPG]

I've changed my mind, I don't want any goals.
No dissapointment that way.

[Emu]

I think I'd like to be a social science or biology teacher. Preferably college or high school (in that order, jersk)

[RaNkeri]

My only goal is to be able to dance on Emu's grave :(

[mburbank]

Is that what you're calling it these days, Chimp?

The 'fate' of 'middle earth'?

[AChimp]

The fate of Middle Earth always ends with the Eye of Sauron exploding and then falling over.

[Ramco]

I want to be typecast as the quirky accident-prone comic relief best friend in midbudget theatrical motion pictures.

[Novelist1982]

Esuohlim,

There's never really used copies for a brand new book, for that was available at the same time the book hit the market :lol :lol

Don't you love the publishing business?

Russo,

Getting a literary agent is not an easy thing to do, especially one with a good conrtract. I did not have an agent for "Ariona", and the publisher I chose did not require one.

All the great publishing companies require an agent, so I got one for my second book, unrelated to "Ariona" and a regular book, not an interactive story. The contract lasts for one year, and if they don't make a sale, then I get to leave them and try elsewhere. Also, when a publishing company makes an offer, I get the final say whether or not to accept it (which is very important).

My current style of writing is similiar to that of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, for they were my greatest influences over the years.

I like writing fantasy stories, and trust me, the whole "Middle Earth" thing is over (very funny, A Chimp, really). I create my own worlds, realms, cities, characters, and will never assume a mythical place is un-copyrighted and/or a general term used to describe a place and setting (even if I couldn't find the copyright info on the government's official websites).

Besides, they spell it "Middle-earth"...totally different :lol2
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I wanted to be a preschool teacher once, but where's the fun in that?

And I tried the whole "I have no goal thing" but if you can't convince yourself that, it just doesn't work :P

[sadie]

your goal is to mould young minds and you know it missy! >:
hey, now, mister. i never planned to do this forever and ever, amen. >:

[Old Pink]

I'm going to teach the dolphins at Seaworld to attack all children under 5 years of age.

[Esuohlim]

Say that's pretty maniacal of you! What kind of response did you get when you posted that in your DeadJournal?

[Trash]

I'm going to teach the dolphins at Seaworld to attack all children under 5 years of age.

You think that's funny, but it isn't.

[WhiteRat]

I'm going to get out of the military without getting married and having kids.

[ArrowX]

KITTTENS!

[Old Pink]

I'm going to teach the dolphins at Seaworld to attack all children under 5 years of age.

You think that's funny, but it isn't.

yea, you're right, that was stupid

[Wiffle Bat]

I want to be a Fast-Food-Technician!

[Dole]

comedy abortionist

[Fathom Zero]

LICENSED Pyrotechnician.

[Tropical]

HR guy incharge of telling people they're redundant.

[DeadKennedys]

One of those guys who rehabilitates injured wolves or trains them for movies.

Or a pilot

[ziggytrix]

Geeze, am I the only one who wants to "Rule the World - mwah hah hah"?

[Novelist1982]

Ruling the world would be short lived. Sure you could control peoples lives or deaths, do anything you wanted to do to or with almost anyone, but it would not last.

Every country would eventually hate you and nuke the planet worldwide, resulting in a landless sea of water with the few survivers living on boats rowing through radioactive watse and having their rotting skin held on to their bodies by thick layers of duct tape.

[Esuohlim]

Novelist1982,

no

[executioneer]

Ruling the world would be short lived. Sure you could control peoples lives or deaths, do anything you wanted to do to or with almost anyone, but it would not last.

Every country would eventually hate you and nuke the planet worldwide, resulting in a landless sea of water with the few survivers living on boats rowing through radioactive watse and having their rotting skin held on to their bodies by thick layers of duct tape.

not if you were good at it >:

[DamnthatDavid]

Going into the Coast Guard, (pending delayed entry, Paperwork is in)

Then buying my own Sail Boat to sail around the world. A pirates life is a wonderful life... or so I hear.

[Novelist1982]

Someone has to be very motivated to get books published and try to actually become known.

I mean, I got a Bachelor's Degree in Media Communications from a University. I work as a Merchandise Supervisor and make enough to survive and save up money (watching my spending on DVDs, video games, books, etc.)

But I will not realistically expect to quit my day job for writing (for decades at least). It sucks to fathom, but unknown authors do not have an easy path. Even if I got a book on the market and would get 10% on royalties (which normally it is less), I would never make enough to quit my job.

If a book sold for $6, and I would get 10% off each sale, that only equals 60 cents from each book sold.

Small publishing companies expect no greater than 1000 copies of a new book to sell in the first year on the market. So the most money I could hope for would be $600 for the year before tax.

Larger publishing companies expect no greater than 5000 copies of a new book to sell in the first year on the market. So the most money I could hope for would be $3000 for the year before tax.

That's kind of depressing, really.

So, the plan is to crank out two to three books a year and start getting them published with great publishing companies. Even then, if sales are weak, the company would stop publishing a book.

I have one book that had been published (and it cost me more to print it than I made off royalties so far, dang company with no advertising). I have another book being represented by an agent, and a third book I will get represented soon.

I am beginning to write an epic science-fiction novel, expected to be around 250-300 pages long. The last two books I wrote were around 122 pages long and took three to four months to write. So, this epic novel will at least take seven months to get right. I would put all my money on this one if it turns out the way I plan for it to be. It will be awesome to say the least.

The only way I could quit my day job and focus on my writing would be to have my two recent books get on the market and sell thousands of copies, and for this epic novel I am working on to become a bestseller with the New York Times and within a few years from publication get me a movie deal (which normally pays an author at least $10 Thousand bucks, plus highly increases the sales of the book.) I also have a spin off set of prequels planned.

[7odd]

the greatest janitor ever.

[ziggytrix]

Someone has to be very motivated to get books published and try to actually become known.

I mean, I got a Bachelor's Degree in Media Communications from a University. I work as a Merchandise Supervisor and make enough to survive and save up money (watching my spending on DVDs, video games, books, etc.)

But I will not realistically expect to quit my day job for writing (for decades at least). It sucks to fathom, but unknown authors do not have an easy path. Even if I got a book on the market and would get 10% on royalties (which normally it is less), I would never make enough to quit my job.

If a book sold for $6, and I would get 10% off each sale, that only equals 60 cents from each book sold.

Small publishing companies expect no greater than 1000 copies of a new book to sell in the first year on the market. So the most money I could hope for would be $600 for the year before tax.

Larger publishing companies expect no greater than 5000 copies of a new book to sell in the first year on the market. So the most money I could hope for would be $3000 for the year before tax.

That's kind of depressing, really.

So, the plan is to crank out two to three books a year and start getting them published with great publishing companies. Even then, if sales are weak, the company would stop publishing a book.

I have one book that had been published (and it cost me more to print it than I made off royalties so far, dang company with no advertising). I have another book being represented by an agent, and a third book I will get represented soon.

I am beginning to write an epic science-fiction novel, expected to be around 250-300 pages long. The last two books I wrote were around 122 pages long and took three to four months to write. So, this epic novel will at least take seven months to get right. I would put all my money on this one if it turns out the way I plan for it to be. It will be awesome to say the least.

The only way I could quit my day job and focus on my writing would be to have my two recent books get on the market and sell thousands of copies, and for this epic novel I am working on to become a bestseller with the New York Times and within a few years from publication get me a movie deal (which normally pays an author at least $10 Thousand bucks, plus highly increases the sales of the book.) I also have a spin off set of prequels planned.

A for effort, but that wasn't quite novel length...

[CaptainBubba]

I want to get paid to do impersonations of Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs where he is talking to himself about how he would have sex with him. If that falls through I'd like to do some office work.

[Courage the Cowardly Dog]

to die and be reincarnated as a womans leotard

[Sethomas]

I can help out with part one of that, Pauly Shore.