Are you plodding along, trying to eek a living from writing books, waiting for that lucky break through? Everybody who has ever written a book hopes their book will be a huge success and make them shed loads of money. Don’t feel guilty for feeling this way, it’s only natural. You want above all to be recognized for the talent you believe you have. You’ve spent hours, months crafting your work of art. You love it. Your family love it, (at least they say they do!) and you want recognition.
Your book isn’t the instant hit you imagined or dreamed it would be. Sales are trickling in. One, maybe a two a day if your lucky. You start to doubt your work of art and most importantly you’re now beginning to doubt yourself and your abilities. You cast your mind back to school days and say to yourself ‘I wasn’t clever at school. I didn’t get the grades. I didn’t go to university… I’m simply not clever enough to be a success.’
This is rubbish. You can be successful you just need to know what the winning formula is. It’s called grit. Look around you at the successful people. My dad was a huge success. By 40 years old he owned a 14th century manor house with a lake with swans on it. He didn’t go to university. In fact he ended up working on the production line of a company making buses. His parents didn’t push him at school. They could barely read and write themselves. It was only through grit and sheer bloody minded hard work that he ended up as editor of the Financial Times, during the 1970s, going on to start his own magazine Marketing Weekly and then he started to make thousands. Richard Branson wasn’t clever either. He failed his exams, so did Churchill.
You can succeed if you put your mind to it, if you want it enough. This goes for virtually everything in life. The secret to success is not talent necessarily but sheer bloody minded persistence. You need to be stubborn in what you want. You need to focus on that goal. Don’t waive. Be consistent. Research all avenues to success. Have hope, effort, precision, passion, ritual and prioritisation. There’s a winning formula to writing a book that will sell. You need to discover what that is. You’ll find that out through reading other peoples’ books in the same genre, go on writing courses and above all learn, learn and learn. Become a gritty person. It’s a trait that can be learned. If you don’t have it yet then fake it till you make it. Push ahead, make it happen. Be gritty, be determined.
I’ve written three books. Sales trickle in. I may never get there to the pearly gates of heady success but I’m giving it my best effort. I read, read and read. I want to discover that winning formula. My books contain humour. I love humour and I’m constantly looking to see why I find the books I read funny. It’s a winning formula and it’s about your determination to find it. I have achieved 41 review on one of them and that’s far more than many books at the top of the charts.
Here are the links to my books. Enjoy. They are both gritty reads so be warned!
USA: https://www.amazon.com/Every-Family-Has-Warrington-Joanna-ebook/dp/B015RUZL7Y UK: https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Womans-Dying-Wish-Things-ebook/dp/B014DP7HQW UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catholic-Womans-Dying-Wish-Things-ebook/dp/B014DP7HQW/“>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catholic-Womans-Dying-Wish-Things-ebook/dp/B014DP7HQW/