How to Become The Next Best-selling Author
What does it take to be the next best seller? Authors like Sidney Sheldon, Nicholas Sparks, J.K. Rowling, and Stephenie Meyer have achieved success that millions of contemporary writers could only dream about. Yet can these dreams ever come true in a day and age where nothing is hardly original anymore?
A novel has two elements to it: the work, and the author. Popularity in either of the two is what guarantees a best-selling book.
The Work
Have you already started writing your manuscript? Do you feel excited when you write it? How you feel when you write down the pages of your book determines how your readers will feel when they read it. If you become so absorbed in the plot that you can’t think of anything else but the story all day – before you sleep, after you wake up, when you’re jogging, when you’re eating, when you’re working or playing or simply doing nothing – then that’s probably a magnetizing manuscript. But along the course of writing, if you get the feeling that you’re dragging the book along, or that you’re just working to get it over and done with, then your audience won’t probably be so enthralled as well.
Getting yourself to the point of writing a killer manuscript is a long and hard process. It takes years and years of experience and practice, hundreds of rejections, and thousands of criticisms before your writing is polished. But here’s something to think about: If you were told that it would take you five years of substandard manuscripts before you can finally write “the book,” would you still bother to do it? Do you write because you love to? Do you love writing that much that 5 years of rejection wouldn’t mean you wasting your life away? If the answer is no, then go and find something else to do.
The Author
This part right here is what I like to call the “back door.” If the work doesn’t have enough sting to make it to the top, then why not give the author a try? A book that is written by a virtually anonymous author, unknown to the world of literature and still to make a name for himself, would probably not get as wide a readership as when that virtually anonymous author somehow suddenly becomes a public figure. The moment that happens, people start to become interested in what he has to say and whatever book that comes out from under his pen – however substandard the writing may be – would most likely sell more copies than most well-written yet unpopular books put together.
Anne Frank’s diary, for example, did not become popular until years after she died. She wasn’t the best writer in the world, and she wasn’t the only one to experience the hardships of wartime. But since her experience – a little girl trapped in a cellar writing about her life – was too unique to be ignored, people wanted to read about it. There’s a reason why they didn’t create a different title for the book and just labeled it as what it truly is, “The Diary of Anne Frank.” If it were any other person’s diary, not that many people would be interested.
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