I am very curious about a Career in Writing. Internet is brimming with pages on How to get into Writing, while I want to first understand What is a Career in Writing. In my quest to learn more about a Career in Writing, I found this amazing page: https://www.lifepage.in/career/20171230-0001/Arts/Writing/Career-in-Writing/english
Palash Krishna Mehrotra has 18 years & 4 months of professional experience in Writing. Palash Krishna Mehrotra has worked in Writing as Independent Writer in Various Creative Assignments. In Palash Krishna Mehrotra's own words, this is how Palash Krishna Mehrotra got into Writing: "After completing his Schooling from Boys High School, Allahabad, he did his Graduation from St Stephen's. He then did PPE from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He has worked at Tehelka.com, as well as The Doon School. He has written around four Books, and has been writing since the year 2000."Palash Krishna Mehrotra has a profile in a very interesting format on: https://www.lifepage.in/page/palashkrishnamehrotra
In a video, Palash Krishna Mehrotra has talked about various aspects of a Career in Writing. Palash Krishna Mehrotra started by explaining Writing as: "Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion with signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language. Writing is not a language, but a tool used to make languages be read." The video gave me so much food for thought.
We all know that only 10% of what is taught in Writing is actually used in real life. The education section of the video clearly explained what is the 10% needed in Writing. Palash Krishna Mehrotra touches upon these in the Education section of the Video:
Palash Krishna Mehrotra then explains why these Skills are essential for a Career in Writing:
Palash Krishna Mehrotra believes that the following are some of the Positives of a Career in Writing:
And, Palash Krishna Mehrotra believes that one needs to prepare for following Challenges of a Career in Writing:
In the final section of the video Palash Krishna Mehrotra talks about How a day goes in a Career in Writing. This video is by far the best video on a Career in Writing, that I have ever come across. To see the full Talk, one needs to install the LifePage Career Talks App. Here is a direct deep link of the Video: https://lifepage.app.link/20171230-0001
I continued with my research on LifePage and thoroughly studied these links to gain more perspective:
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