Why Some Writers are Published and Some Aren’t?
Have you ever wondered why some writers are published and others aren't? This is the age-old question which seems to stump many people. There are some writers who are really good writers but will never be able to realize their full potential due to the fact that they couldn't get their work into the hands of the right person. Then, there are those writers who aren't discovered because they left their work in the hands of fate and fate wasn't very kind to them!
Seriously speaking, the writers who are discovered are often as much savvy business people as they are writers. They are salespeople who will swiftly take their project from one publisher to the next or one agent to the next and refuse to take no for an answer. They will do their best to keep their material in front of someone for consideration at all times. They will refuse to take their name or their work out of the public eye.
Writers who are sharp business minds will take the time to follow up with publishers or agents and will make the right adjustments to their material in order to get it published. They are not people who are easily swatted away and told to look for someone else to publish their material. They don't accept no as an answer. These writers are diligent in their quest for someone to publish them and they won't stop until they are published. These are the people who are published.
There are those writers who are lucky enough to just land a publisher without any problem. They are at the right place at the right time with the right material and they just land the nod of approval. These writers know that they have what it takes and yet they appreciate what they have when the right opportunity comes along. They take every opportunity to write and polish up on their craft and they don't take for granted that they will always be published just because they have one book in copy.
Writers are really in several different classes and there's no way around recognizing this as a fact. There are unpublished writers and published writers. The published writers are broken down into groups by genre which is why many unpublished writers are unpublished. The unpublished writers are broken down into why they aren't published, as sad as that may be. They either aren't published because of skill or because of lack of knowledge or lack of drive to get their work into the hands of the right publisher. However, there's a reason and everyone falls into a category of why they aren't published.
The world of publishing is odd in fact. There are just so many reasons one is published and one isn't and really it probably all boils down to a simple little one word explanation that many writers won't want to hear. It's called fate. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be and if it's not then it's not. Publishers and agents are tools of fate and your work is one of the entities they consider in deciding your fate as a writer. Ultimately, that's why some writers are published and others are never published.
Writing a Series!
Have you ever wondered how a writer becomes involved in writing a series? Have you ever wondered how they can start writing a series and just take the book from one sold-out novel to the next or from one best seller to the next?
The reason the more successful series are so successful is because the writer took the time to sit down beforehand and plan out the series from the starting gate so to speak. The writer had a rough outline of how the first book would fit into the second and how the third book in the series would spin off of the first two. The more successful series are well planned from the conception of the first idea of book one.
Writing a series is very challenging for all parties concerned. The writer must be in tune with what the publisher and editor will want and the editor must be in tune with what they can expect from the writer in all stages of the work in progress. The writer will need to gain experience from each stage to successfully take the book from one book in the series to the next and be able to blend them all together while keeping a reader’s attention guaranteeing future sales for the work in progress.
Thoughtful planning is crucial for a successful series to take place and the best thing to do when planning a series is to listen to the advice of your editor and your publisher. Pick up a couple of series to see how the authors of different series was able to take the reader from one book and story to the other while not losing a reader who missed the first book or missed one book in the series.
Writing a series is fun and can lead to one of the most successful works in the author’s lifetime. If in doubt, look at the series of Nancy Drew, Harry Potter and the Hardy Boys and you’ll know that books in a series is a profitable venture.
