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Think about your personal values and needs when considering your future career. Carefully examining your own needs and wants when it comes to your career can help you choose one that is a great fit for your personality and skills. Writing down your wants and needs can help you organize your thoughts and see them clearly. Think about where you would like to work. For example, do you prefer an office, a restaurant, or the outdoors? Ask yourself if you prefer to work alone or with a team. Examine your preferences when it comes to deadlines. Do you like a busy and tight schedule or do you prefer to have things more open ended? Try to think of positions that don't have a college education as a requirement. Some examples are gas plant operators, subway operators, electrical power line repairers and installers, and farmers. Aptitude tests help you evaluate your skills and abilities, scoring you on specific criteria. Knowing which areas you are already proficient with can help you narrow down your choices when looking for a future career. Many aptitude tests are available online and are free. Some of the areas tested will be logic, numerical and verbal reasoning, spelling, math and computer skills. If desired, you can prepare before taking the test by taking an inventory of your interests, strengths, and weaknesses. There are many on-line quizzes that you can take that will help you to better understand which careers might be the best for you. Many of these quizzes are created and offered by both professional services or governmental services and can give you an accurate idea of which careers you might enjoy. Try some of the following quizzes to learn more about your career preferences: http://careers.state.gov/work/foreign-service/officer/career-track-quiz http://joboutlook.gov.au/careerquiz.aspx http://www.careerbridge.wa.gov/survey_cluster.aspx http://www.rasmussen.edu/resources/aptitude-test/ A benefit of college is that it has very rigid requirements and schedules when it comes to learning new information and skills. Since you may have to learn these skills on your own, you will have to set definite goals for your personal development and strive to meet them. Try reviewing the details of the S.M.A.R.T goal-setting method to get started: S Specific: Goals should answer the questions of "how," "what," and "why". M Measurable: Goals should have components that you can measure and use to track your progress. A Achievable: Goals should be realistic and obtainable while still presenting a challenge. R Results: Goals should focus on outcomes instead of the steps that will achieve the goal. T Time: Goals should have a specific length of time they must be achieved by, adding pressure and incentive to meet them.

summary: Examine your personal interests and preferences. Take an aptitude test. Try using on-line career quizzes. Set goals.

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Many novice fantasy authors rely too heavily on the fantastical elements of the story and neglect to develop the actual story itself first. Before you can write a compelling piece of fantasy fiction, though, you'll need all the elements of a strong and compelling plot. For this reason, it may be helpful to create at least a skeletal outline to help you track what happens and to whom in your story. Every plot should have some element that sets the story in motion. This may be an external conflict or an internal one, but something needs to happen in order for the action to progress. Rising action (in which the story develop and tension builds), the climax of that action, and the subsequent falling action are all crucial elements of a strong plot. The denouement (or "unraveling"), in which all of the tension is completely resolved, is essential to move the story towards its logical ending. A good conflict is critical if you hope to write a strong plot for any type of fiction. Conflict motivates the characters, catalyzes the story, and creates tension that the reader will engage with. A common strategy is to depict the antagonist's motivations in direct conflict with the protagonist's. This creates a tremendous amount of tension and allows the reader to further identify with the protagonist. Conflict can be between a person and himself/herself, between two people, or between a person and an abstract concept (society, God/gods/goddesses, etc.). Characters are arguably more important than the plot. Even if a reader doesn't find the plot particularly interesting, he or she may continue to read a story because of its compelling and/or relatable characters. Characters should have a clear, well-defined motivation. This can be a need/desire, a goal, or simply a personality trait, but it should be clear what makes each character tick. Try to make your characters contradictory or otherwise complicated, as this can make them more realistic. Remember that no one in real life is always good or always evil, so fictional characters shouldn't be, either. Make your characters vulnerable somehow. Whether it's a physical vulnerability or an emotional one, some type of human suffering/vulnerability makes characters more relatable. Map out more characteristics and motivations for each main character than you'll actually explicitly include in your story. Just knowing what makes your characters happy/sad/frightened/etc. can influence how you write that character in subtle ways. Infusing your plot with vivid details and complex developments will help bring your story to life for readers. Try to incorporate as many sensory details as you can so that readers get a real sense of what your characters experience and what your fictional world is like. You'll obviously want to include the sights and sounds of your world, but don't neglect the smells, tastes, and tactile feelings of that world. Don't drag your story on for chapter after chapter once the tension is resolved, but don't rush to be finished either. Figure out where the story should logically end by considering what readers may want to know about your characters in the chapter or two that follow the resolution of tension. Make sure your characters resolve their conflicts. Don't try to have acts of nature, a new character, or some divine element fix all the conflicts, or readers will be turned off very quickly. If your story is part of a larger saga, you'll have to balance the logical ending for this story and the hint of what's to come in the next story. If your story is a free-standing piece of fiction, think about what questions might linger after the tension wraps up. Consider what happens to the principal characters, as well as what might happen to the world you've created after the central conflict is resolved.
summary: Outline your plot. Develop the conflict. Create interesting and memorable characters. Expand and develop the plot. End the story at a logical point.