Real Life Writing

• Read a lot and pay attention to how good authors write.
• Keep a journal
• Write thank you notes, letters, and e-mails to family and friends.
• Make a newsletter and distribute it through the Internet.
• Write letters to the editor, politicians, and businesses.
• Write articles for your own website.
• Write a blog.
  
• Write stories and essays for contests.
• Write a book or novel.
• Write articles for non-profit websites.
• Write stories to be published on a writing website.
• Write articles and submit them to magazines.
• Take a writing workshop and go to a writing conference.
• Read writing magazines.
• Read creative writing books.
  
• Join a writers critique group.
• Play online games that involve writing.
• Copy work - write pages from a well written book.