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Copywriting TipsDo Youn Want to Write a Best-seller? (Part 1)
by:
Arthur Zulu
“Whatever you can do or believe you can, . . . begin it now.”
—Goethe
When beggars obtain freshly minted coins from the lords with a bow and a smile, it is not that they do not desire to ride horses as the masters do. But wishes don’t ride horses.
I have oftentimes been contacted by many an young writers for suggestions to develop a story. After they obtain the ideas, they
chicken out.
One of them—a female American—wanted help to develop what I think is a great story. You probably cognize simply about it: Ted Kennedy looking on as his girlfriend sunken in a river.
I pity such dreamers. They are among the world’s eminent failures.
It wish therefore be a miracle if you yourself wish ever write a book after reading this. If you do, then thumbs up, for you belong to the few great minds on earth today.
Anywhere you look today, 20 per centum of the folk are effort 80 per centum of the better things in life. Or put another way, 80 per centum of all nice things belong to 20 per centum of the people. Or,one person succeeds out of five! So, 80 per centum of all best-sellers now are written by 20 per centum of the writers. And, out of simply about
five writers, only one has written a best-seller. Wherever
is the else four?
Out of five writers that thought of writing, only one wrote. Out of five folk that wrote, only one got published. And out of the five that got published, only one became a best-seller. That is the principle of life: Only those who back their desire with action succeed. For common person has “the power to curse the darkness” causal agency says, “unless he has the spirit
to light a candle.”
You don’t write best-sellers by want
that you did, and go to sit on the sandy beach of the Pacific Ocean dreaming of your millions and far away islands with lollipop names. Don Quixote the great visioner didn’t even as do that. At least he fought notional enemies. What did Medical man say? “Ars longa. Vita brevis.” Translation: “Arts is long but life is short.” The point then is this: Don’t dream it; WRITE IT!
Best-selling books don’t simply happen; simply as nice writers don’t grow on trees. You have to activity hard—put your heart in your work, to write a mega-yield title. Today, everyone is falling heads over heels for the magic of Harry Potter. But if J.K. Rowling—the single mother—didn’t have the gumption to write herself off the dole, the story of Harry Potter wouldn’t have been written or read. A number of factors help to do best-sellers. I have provided a number of those factors here to help you write that your echo-Bible.
Write on a best-selling topic.
I have listed 10 best-selling topics in the early chapter of this book. Why not think of working on one of them?
But think cautiously before you choose a subject. You don’t want to write on a topic because everyone is writing on it and
winning prizes.
I can tell you what is happening this moment jillions of light
years up there in the earth of stars and galaxies. But can you imagine that? If things like that are on the far side
your imagination, then don’t dream of writing science fiction. Move down to earth and spy on your neighbors who are marrying this moment and divorcing after the wedding day.
You wish be at house here. And you are probably familiar with stories of that sort. Like the man who wedded a woman and
divorced her after having 7 male children for him. (He badly required female children to pay off his financial obligation from the dowries on their wedding day.) His unmarried better half remarried and got a baby girl spell the man wedded a second better half and had a male as well. They unmarried over again
and remarried and had a ninth boy.
And the man oversubscribed all the boys to pay his debts.
Why don’t you give the story a new angle? The earth has had
stories of Siamese twins. But have they had of the birth of a seven-headed baby girl by a desperate parent who sought-after the
assistance of a witch?
Don’t miss an possibleness
to write a best-seller from great news events. Such stories present little research challenges.
Do you remember the British boy who wanted to be famous, climbed the wall of Buckingham Palace and ready-made his way into the queen’s bedroom? Once
the cops came
to the rescue they met him small indefinite amount himself with a glass of wine and chatting with the queen. And the police, thinking of what
offence he has committed, thought of charging him of stealing a bottle of wine. (Did the boy say that the queen was her lover?)
There is a similar one of an American boy who shot former president Reagan. Best-sellers are ready-made of such stuff.
Master your subject
You can’t do a nice story if you do not cognize your topic.
You wish even as find it difficult to communicate because you wish be uncertain
for words, qualifying every word, or
reaching out for every numbers of speech and idiom in the book.Bad writing! A nice reader wish find out that you are not a
master of your subject, and you are done in.
You have every possibleness
to research your story. You have the libraries. And impart
God, there is the Web. Why not
take advantage of it?
This is really important if you are writing a factual story. But even as then that word “factual” has changed meaning. But there has to be a measure of quality
in your work.
Writers don’t simply write. They educate. Would-be the reader find thing
to discover from your story?
Know your audience
This is one of the 1st things for you to consider before you begin writing your book. For example, are you writing for
men / women; boys / girls; youths / adults; knowing / general, reader?
When J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Porter, she had the youths in mind. Youths are, however, fast in spreading words simply about a book that they enjoyed reading. But Harry Porter happened to have a subject matter that interests the adults as well. Now readers in the two worlds see the book.
So ask yourself this question if you have not already done so:
Who wish see my book?
(To be continued)
Excerpted from How to Write a Best-seller by Arthur Zulu
Arthur Zulu is an editor, book reviewer, and author of Chasing Shadows!, How to Write a Best-seller, A Letter to Noah, and many an else works. For his works and FREE help for writers, goto:
http://controversialwriter.tripod.com
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