Comments on: What Are the Odds of Success? …Really?

By: Kuldeep yadav

Kuldeep yadav — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 05:23:24 +0000

Such a motivational blog, when am reading i was like now what next .. now what next. Good job. well done. keeep it up.

Thanks for sharing

By: lasvegaslinny

lasvegaslinny — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:36:32 +0000

Reblogged this on LindaSTaylor and commented:
Sometimes my ADD/OCD personality pays off, even for a writer!

A couple of weeks ago I made a comment in one of the LinkedIn groups that I was most inspired and encouraged in my path to author-hood by a blog post I read several months back. Couldn’t remember at the time who’s blog it was in … couldn’t remember the percentages quoted (I’m not a numbers kinda girl) … Yeah, a really helpful and informative comment. I never should have stopped what I had been doing to check e-mail. Double never should have made that comment.

But surprisingly several readers commented back, agreeing that it was inspiring and encouraging. That yes, they too wanted to beat the odds and be in the top XX% of those who worked hard and carried on when others didn’t. That continuing the effort gives them an extra boost up the ladder. As it turned out, the actual percentages didn’t matter. I received the important message. So I started researching to find that post again. First choice, knowing who I followed fairly regularly and most often opened their emails because of the headlines, was Kristen Lamb, WANA Queen. I was right, for once!

So I’m reblogging her post here, with apologies for not giving her credit, and not singing her praises far and wide sooner. She does it all perfectly. And it’s interesting, and humorous, and sometimes shows her flaws and mistakes (really they’re nothing, hardly anything. Just because she calls her son Spawn doesn’t mean anything …).

So enjoy what inspired me, and if you don’t follow her already, be sure to check out Kristen Lamb’s Blog WarriorWriters.wordpress.com. Then click the tab for #MyWANA. You know you’ll want to!

By: lythya

lythya — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:30:17 +0000

This is going into my “inspirational quotes” document. Perhaps even (gasp) my desktop background!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome post. Loved it. Now just gotta get that book edited!

By: wordfoolery

wordfoolery — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:29:16 +0000

Great post. I’ve often thought about that 5% because I meet so many wannabe writers who don’t actually write anything. I’ll just have to keep working my way past those oil drums.

By: Mary Martsching

Mary Martsching — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:41:27 +0000

I appreciate your article. I missed it in May, but it encouraged me as a new self-published author. You confirmed I am doing what I’m supposed to do. I have finished three books, only published one two months ago, read lots of articles by professional writers on marketing and prioritizing my schedule, listened to lots of online writing conference sessions to learn how to market my book, and applying that training to blogging, connecting to other writers, going through a professional mediary organization for editing and designing my book (WestBow Press), and working everyday on some facet of writing and/or marketing. I must be in that 5%, but it’s moving slowly. Thank you for your affirmation and insight.
Mary Martsching
Author of Finding Heath Young Lighthouse Keeper
thehopebeacon.wordpress.com

By: Rachel Thompson

Rachel Thompson — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:36:54 +0000

Success is in doing it, doing it because you love and want to be the best you can be; success is not becoming a best seller. Best sellers work hard first, for the love of it, and the rest follows. kill the ego and do the hard time. Some success stories, like James Patterson lose their way and become rich sell outs. Others like Steven King do it for love and achieve it without selling out. It’s up to you. You in it for the money or the satisfaction? Do it for love and the money won’t matter although it may well come anyway. The best writers work for excellence and that pays dividends not looked for.

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Wed, 29 May 2013 14:08:59 +0000

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By: Lisa Ricard Claro

Lisa Ricard Claro — Tue, 28 May 2013 19:34:51 +0000

Hi Kristen – This was total serendipity for me today! It was a boost to see that I’m doing so many of the right things; not feeling quite so out in left field now. I actually linked to this post by accident. I had bookmarked one of your other posts (Sacred Cow-Tipping–Why Writers Blogging About Writing is Bad) to blog about tomorrow, and then I spotted this link. So now my blog tomorrow will actually link to two of your posts. 🙂

By: Rohan 7 Things

Rohan 7 Things — Tue, 28 May 2013 12:36:18 +0000

Great post, lot’s of good advice! I just keep reminding myself that it takes time. Keep blogging, keep writing books, keep making connections and keep learning 🙂

Thanks for sharing! All the best 😉

Rohan.

By: Julie Grasso

Julie Grasso — Tue, 28 May 2013 11:12:23 +0000

Thanks Kristen, great post.