“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau
First some related fields that are really just broad areas to choose from and then you can narrow down your choices. You could be in media, book publishing, arts and entertainment, business communications and public relations, advertising, federal government, scholastic/academic, freelance services, and self-publisher. If you are a writer and want to find a new job or want to be a writer and want to know what areas and categories you'd fall into look into some of these. Now you wouldn't think so at first but a novelist is actually part of a creative writing and if you want to be a writer but not a novelist look into some of these jobs: Greeting Card Author
,Comic Book Writer, Novelist
, Creativity Coach, Writing Coach
, Advertising (Creative), Screenwriter
,Songwriter (Lyricist), Freelance Short Fiction Writer
, Creative Writing Instructor, Legacy Writer ( you write people’s biographys and family histories)
, Ghostwrite, Travel Writer (only if you travel)
, Article Writer (write, submit, repeat), Columnist
, Video Game Writer (includes storytelling/fiction), Personal Poet (write personalized poems for weddings, funerals, childbirths,
etc.)
, Playwright, Blogger , and Creative Writing Consultant. Those are a lot of jobs to choose from huh? You wouldn't think it but that is the whole point, to have many different coices to choose from that are related fields in your area of interest.