Comments on: Are Successful Writers Just Lucky? https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13009 Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:34:44 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13009 In reply to stefooch.

That is the FIRST and toughest part. Though don’t dismiss good craft books. They can add a lot to your toolbox 😉 .

]]> By: stefooch https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13008 Sat, 01 Nov 2014 05:10:48 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13008 I am a young writer. I know exactly how you feel. I do believe that some people are fortunate enough to be published easier. However if you want to be best selling and work towards that goal it will most probably realize. Okay, I am seventeen and I also thought about the millions of people who wrote. I never wanted to write. Last year I was great in Math and Science, but then at the end of Grade 10. After I wasn’t the best anymore… my friends were more outgoing and ethanol lovers. Depression sucks. I was always good in my essays… weird stories usually, but I liked it. Then lo and behold I pour my heart out for my second language (English) and my essays were second best. I lost it. Even though my pride was bad, it had to be broken. I started writing because I loved it from there. Now, almost a year later. My first Survival Horror novel’s first draft if almost done. I set myself aside from a few writers. Still I am young and I don’t craft. I write like Howey and Child… I don’t go to conferences, but I will write for a living you hear. (shakes fist into the sky.) Maybe I am just a dreamer, but hey… I am a writer.

]]> By: Arithmetic for writers, part 2: publishing equations | 5 Writers 5 Novels 5 Months https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13007 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:55:31 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13007 […] essay on numbers and success that tickled me most was a post on Kirsten Lamb’s Blog titled “Are Successful Writers Just Lucky?” (one of her observations was that the harder a writer worked the luckier he/she […]

]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13006 Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:31:50 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13006 In reply to Kyle Hart.

Well, I admitted this was highly unscientific, but after 14 years working as a writer and with writers? I’d say it’s pretty accurate. If I have a blogging class of 100, I guarantee you that roughly only 5% will still be blogging within a year. When I held novel writing workshops? About 5% ever finished and on and on and on. The point is to not get overwhelmed with how insurmountable it seems because most people aren’t willing to gut it through for the long haul.

]]> By: Kyle Hart https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13005 Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:18:56 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13005 Unless of course you assume the people doing all these things are the same 5% of the original sample. For example, the only people who being writing are in the 5% who make a sustainable change. All of these people are then capable of following the subsequent steps. [It is not a 5% probability of each change, but a 5% probability of being a person capable of making an unspecified number of sustainable changes.]

]]> By: Eventis Fall https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13004 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 04:23:13 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13004 who writes sixty word books?

]]> By: » By the power of Grayskull… I have the POWER! https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13003 Mon, 27 May 2013 11:21:07 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13003 […] idea of focusing on the things we can control. (Check out Kristen Lamb’s post entitled “Are Successful Writers Just Lucky” for a great list of outcomes writers have the power to […]

]]> By: therightwriter@cox.net https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13002 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:59:05 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13002 Dear Kirsten: I loved this article and listed a quote from it (along with your web address and full authorial recognition) on my blog. I, too, am a writer and have worked as a technical writer, editor, PR copywriter and ghostwriter for close to ten years. Thank you for your consumate wisdom. I would thoroughly enjoy communicating through email with you. Best Wishes, Lynnette Baum

]]> By: By the power of Grayskull… I have the POWER! | D.B. Smyth https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13001 Sat, 12 May 2012 16:26:07 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13001 […] idea of focusing on the things we can control. (Check out Kristen Lamb’s post entitled “Are Successful Writers Just Lucky” for a great list of outcomes writers have the power to […]

]]> By: Ursula Grey https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/are-successful-writers-just-lucky/#comment-13000 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:43:00 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4889#comment-13000 Wonderfully inspiring post. Feeling much better now:-) Thanks!

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