Writing A Successful Novel

Let's talk about un-success first. Why? Because if you want to be successful at something that means a lot to you, you have to have an idea, don't you, as to where your own efforts can go wrong?

Currently, as the New York Times has just reported again, 70 percent of all published novels fail both their authors and their publishers. They do not make money for publishers and authors alike.

70 percent! Do you want to be in the 30 percent that are the successful category of writers, or in the 70 percent that fail.

The erudite New York Times book section concludes from interviewing publishers that no one but no one knows how a successful book is done from another book equally edited well and publicized that fails.

The New York Times titles its article: The Greatest Mystery: Making a Best Seller. They conclude that no one knows how to make a best seller.

Tools For Writing The Successful Novel?

Our specialty here is writing craft tools for writing a novel. Our information may be gotten at our website thewritersinterface.com. We specialize in helping writers with understanding their craft.

We have one basic assumption that, like in many other fields, if you know your craft you are likely to be successful with your product.

Writer = Story Imagination = Writing Craft = Great Publishing = Success

Failure To Be Successful And What You Can Do About It

Seven out of ten books published by professional publishers fail. What if the New York Times reported that seven out of ten cars a car manufacturer makes fail? What would you say to that? Would you buy a new car? In fact, one hundred percent of new cars sold all work as described, so much so that they have a guarantee that the car will work or they will repair it free for you.

What if publishers guaranteed their authors that if we publish your book for you it will be successful or we pay you 100,000 dollars?

What a nice guarantee for authors, and for publishers! For it means that publishers would have to hire teams of competent editors who had a track record of editing successful books into print.

The seventy percent of published authors whose books fail are taking the blame when it should be the editors who should know how to make successful novels, just as car manufactures have engineers who know how to make successful cars.

But this is not reality. Even the prestigious New York Times does not know how to make a successful novel.

The why should you as an aspiring novelist know how to create a successful novel? Reason, yes? Good logic, yes?

You are not just somebody who writes something they call a novel, like for nano novel writing month, are you? You take the work and the commitment to write a full novel more seriously, don't you?

You Have To Learn Your Writing Craft!

Then you have to learn writing craft and here is where we come in.

Through our collection of hundreds of writing craft tools we give you The Writer's Interface, a PDF download book or a WriteItNow software interactive so that you may plan out your story into novel form and write it up with a lot more chance of success at publishing than publishers themselves are able to achieve.

"Written Following The Writer's Interface!"

Think on it! Some day you as a novel writer may be able to say, "written following the writing craft knowledge of The Writer's Interface." And thus almost guarantee that your novel will be successful in the market place.

At least let us raise your chances past the fifty percent level, which is chance. As of now, the rate of success for published novels is thirty percent, less than even chance.

Publishers Hurt Novelists More Than They Help Them

It's crazy but the numbers mean that publishers are so bad at what they do that they even hurt novels they take to be published, so much so that they don't even reach the fifty-fifty mark.

You could go to your favorite delicatessen and get a better deal and chance for success at publishing your novel than going through a literary agent and the editors of a publishing house. Don't ask me why. Facts, only facts. It's crazy to realize how poor publishers are at their own game. It's crazy to allow such un-success.

Answer - Learn Writing Craft

So here's our answer. Learn writing craft, but maybe you can't just learn it on your own. You can learn some things, of course, but are they the right things to use in writing a successful novel?

Why not seek the help of the experts?

We can't write your novel for you. We can't edit it once you have written and rewritten it at least five times. Editing someone else's manuscript towards success is only possible for a few rare editors like Maxwell Perkins, the editor of Hemingway.

You Must Know More Than Your Editors Do!

The reality is, don't trust most editors. Why? Remember again what the failure rate is in the industry. It is below chance! The majority of publishers' editors are making the novels that they publish worse.

I always say that if you are an editor you can't write. If you teach creative writing you can't write. If you agent someone else's work you can't write.

Can you see that these are the professionals who are supposed to know which novel manuscripts are going to be successful reads before the general public, yet these sincere and sometimes passionate people cannot themselves write a novel that sells over 100,000 copies, or any kind of book for that matter.

What Strephon Has Achieved As A Writer?

Just so you don't think this author is just arrogant, I have in fact published one best seller, The Dream Cards, a 25 dollar item with Simon and Schuster and foreign publishers at 110,000 copies sold and still selling since 1991 in some countries. In total, Strephon has over 350,000 books in circulation and rising.

Do you know how many published books sell over 100,000 copies out of all sold? A Dale survey found that 500 books out of over one million published in 2002 sold over 100,000 copies.

This author has done it once. Maybe he can do it again and again?

But what is the secret in making a publishing success?

This author's answer is writing craft perspective and tools.

Know Your Craft!

Don't sit down and simply try and write a great story out of your writer's imagination. Don't simply write for yourself, but do write from yourself.

Don't think because you have a great story you believe in that you can sit down and tell intriguing stories for others without knowing your writing craft at a high and competitive level?

You have to learn your craft.

You have to build your story with craft.

Why You Might Want To Write A Novel?

Here is a short list of why you and your friends might want to write a novel:

• you have a story to tell that feels very important for you and others.

• you want to try something meaningful and creative to do in your spare time.

• you want to be the very best writer that you possibly can be.

• you love reading novels and so why not write one from your own talent and point of view?

• you have something to say and no one else has said it yet quite like you understand it.

See us. Explore with us at The Writer's Interface.com. You have nothing to lose but your possible impending failure as a writer. We don't me to scare you . . . but!