Who? You? Why not?

The Secret!

We all have our secrets, but the biggest secret of all is how to be successful at something we have chosen to do.

Yes, is it true that with any big achievement there is a key as to how to make it all happen successfully?

Why is it a secret then? Doesn't everybody realize what the secret is and do it for success?

A secret is a secret because few have done it so far and made a success out of what they have done.

The Secret Of Writing The Successful Novel

What then is the secret of writing a successful novel?

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Should Writers Write Ezine Articles Or Blogs?

Blogs

Why should you want to write a blog when articles are better? I find myself as a writer wanting to say, write blogs. Blogs are personal. You get to give your personal views on life, on your life as a person and as a writer. You get to be chatty. You get to show off your writing skills, tell stories about yourself and your friends. You get to include pictures of friends and describe trips you have taken.

Ezine Articles

Do you want free outreach on the web? However, as a writer, write Ezine articles instead! Why? Not that they are boring. It's actually more true that blogs are boring. The best blogs have a name tag to them but the fact is that the most popular blogs are written by professional writers hired to research the web and write in that particular blog style.

Blogs

What is wrong with blogs? Popular blogs are not written and kept up to date by you, a lone writer. It's a team effort, a major publishing effort. Can you as a writer really afford to do this, even if you are good enough? Prove it, of course.

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What Makes The Difference?

If we are honest with you, how could I possibly be smart enough or wise enough to give you and me one of the big secrets in life?

How can anyone know what the secret is?

Yet, let's take a shot at it. First, may I be bold enough to say that almost nobody under seventy knows what the secret is. Fortunately, I am over seventy!!!

All kidding aside, what is the secret between success and failure?

Let us start with a premise: You have to look at the character of a person to evaluate whether they know a secret of life or not. Are they:

• developed beings, integrated and whole?
• do they exploit others by lying to them or selling them a job?
• do they prove they are successful by leading integrated lives?
• to they practice what they preach and have positive results?
• in their own sphere of influence with those they know to they make a positive contribution to their lives?
• do those who claim to have the secret also deal effectively with the negatives of life, the Great Testor?

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You don't even need chapters anymore in some novels, but then you might simply have a lot of chapters.

Normally a Chapter in a Novel is three to five scenes. What then makes the difference between a chapter and its scenes? And why is this important in planning a novel?

In planning your novel or screen play, first you want to create every possible scene or event. Visualize putting each scene or event on a paper card, whether you actually do this or not.

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Chances are you feeling like a struggling writer this morning or evening, wherever you are on this planet.

Today you just can't get to writing that 400 words, or is it 1500 words you have set for yourself as your daily goal for that great writing project of yours?

You have writer's block?

How the hell are you ever going to succeed in life if you can't even write 400 words of great text? That's about one and a half pages of story if you are a novelist, which hopefully you will be someday?

So let's get down to work!

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Nano Novel Writing Month

Chances are you think that maybe you can write a novel. There's a writing contest out there: write 50,000 words of a novel in a month. It's called Nano Novel Writing Month. You have to find the details each year on Google because they seem to open and close during the year. It's always in November.

No, I have not participated. Our motivation here at this site is to create a novel that takes more than a month to write, and is a real novel full of writing craft and good story.

No, we are not affiliated in any way with NaNo Writing Month. It's a volunteer show, it seems. The idea is to commit to writing the 50,000 words novel in a month.

Just a commitment gives challenge, focus, companions and a great feeling to push oneself to the limit.

Is it worth doing? Anything truly challenging can be worth doing, whether there is further reward after or not, except in the doing of the project.

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Pros And Cons

The issues

Should you spend all your time possible on 'writing a damn good novel?' Or should you also spend time to see if you can develop a following in one of the Internet venues, such as MySpace, youtube, podcasting or writing an almost daily blog?

Should you start getting a following now on the Internet of those who like what you say? Or wait possibly years while you write and rewrite an eventually successful novel, should that ever truly happen?

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