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Writing is all about practice, in my experience.
Write all the time, write about everything you can imagine, and let people read what you write to give you feedback...this is how your writing will improve.
Also, writing a book for the purpose of getting it published sounds like a loosing proposition to me. You should be writing a book because you love to write and love having people read what you write. This is how a successful and publishable book is created.
As far as payment goes only proven best selling authors, celebraties, and politicians (psuedo-celebs) get 'paid' to write a book. In fact what they are paid for is the right to have a book appear to be written by them. The occasional actual author celebrity surfaces, but most are ghost written.
It is unlikely that a non-celebrity, untested writer will be paid to write a book.
As far as I know, first manuscripts usually have the rights to publish paid for, but usually royalties or advances are reserved for proven authors.
As far as finding a publisher, you've got to send them out. Pick your genre, style, and subject matters, and seek out the publishing houses that specialize in these, and let them read your stuff. Not that complicated.
Everything comes down to how good of a writer you are...and as with just about everything practice makes perfect.
Got anything you'd like to share?
I'd love to read something you wrote.
-bear
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It's alot easier to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission.
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