If not, should you write in another format?
To be published, you need an agent to “bite”.
To get there, can you pitch what you write “off-pat”?
Says it all really. You’ve got to enjoy what you write to be able to keep going. Also enjoying your work will help you pitch it more confidently (and convincingly at that). The first to believe in your work and you is you. Read author interviews as it’s always useful to see how others work and why. You may well pick up tips to try out or be comforted in knowing you’re doing similar to Author A and they’ve been published. Every unpublished writer needs encouragement to keep going every so often. This is where entering competitions and hopefully getting shortlisted, then wins under your belt can help as well as being brilliant to put on a letter to an agent, publisher etc.
Read the best from all genres to write your best
Find out what can work best for other writers
Visit a conference or a writing “fest”
Avoid vanity presses and all blighters
Persistence and patience are the writer’s test.
If you don’t read outside your own work, how can you know what field you want to work in? Also how can you pitch effectively without knowing what is already out there in the market? Also how can you love to write if you don’t love to read? Some other writer’s work must’ve inspired you somewhere! One of the loveliest things about going to conferences is talking to other writers and finding out what they’re doing. Given every fiction writer is a nosey parker (why write otherwise? We’re trying to work out what makes others tick), talking to others like this is bliss. And often enough you’ll find out things you don’t already know and might be useful.