This document provides an overview of career opportunities in writing. It discusses the flexibility and variety of jobs available, including journalism, book authoring, publishing, script writing, and poetry or prose. For journalism specifically, it outlines some typical positions like editor-in-chief, sub-editor, sports editor, and reporters. It also touches on some of the challenges of writing careers like lack of cooperation from interview subjects or outdated technology, but emphasizes thinking outside the box. The document encourages developing personal qualities like curiosity, articulation, reliability and self-motivation to succeed in this flexible career path.

1. CAREER WEEK
WRITING
BY ADELE O. RAMOS

2. A Writer
 The sky’s the limit!
 Local and international
opportunities
 Self-employment
possible

3. A writing career
 Poetry or Prose?
 There is more money in prose
than in poetry!
 Journalism
 Book author or publisher
 Script writer

4. News Team Positions
Editor-in-Chief
Sub-Editor
Sports
Editor
Reporters

5. Competition
 Get the story first, when possible!
 Always tell it best! So even if you
don’t get it out first, your readers will
still want to read your story.
 Find unique angles other journalists
will ignore.

6. Why it’s always worth it!
 Delivering to your audience
something tangible and
meaningful.
 Broadening their knowledge and
understanding.
 Empowering them to make
decisions.
 Helping lead public change
through awareness.

7. Why it’s sometimes hard
 Lack of cooperation from
subjects for interviews.
 Information access poor.
 Inadequate resources.
 Technology outmoded.
 Opinion and philosophical
differences with editorial team.
TO BEAT THIS, ALWAYS THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!

8. Personal qualities (CARS)
 Curious
 Articulate
 Reliable
 Self-starter

9. TYPICAL WORK DAY
Doesn’t exist!
Every day is different!
The only thing they have in
common is:
DEADLINES!

10. BOOKS PUBLISHED

11. Script Writing
HISTORIC BELIZEAN DRAMATIC TV SERIES
•Screenplays
•Stage Plays

12. Some Belizean writers:
 Zee Edgell
 Lucia Ellis
 Zoila Ellis
 Kathleen Esquivel
 Dr. Corinth Morter-Lewis
 Marcella Lewis
 Myrna Manzanares
 Sakinah Muhammad
 Francis B. Arana
 Dr. Bernard E. Bulwer
 E. Roy Cayetano
 Joseph Palacio
 Nicholas Pollard, Sr.
 Evan X Hyde
 Norman C. Rodriguez
 Sir Colville Young

13. THANK YOU!
Choose right!