Work hard, for without hard work no critical mass will be achieve. Luck: there is no doubt that luck plays an important role in success – being seen or not being seen, being at the right place at the right time. But the hard work, with its increased exposure will improve the odds of being successful as a writer.

I’m sure that you have heard of the 10 000 hour rule. Well, this certainly applies to writing. The 10 000 would be your apprenticeship to be successful as a writer.

Get cracking, and start working through the 10 000 hours. Pat

      Discipline is an earmark of a good writer.
Norman Mailer, author of the The naked and the dead, had this to say about discipline: “I used to
have a little studio in Brooklyn, a couple of blocks from my house — no telephone, not much else.
The only thing I ever did there was work. It was perfect. I was like a draft horse with a conditioned
reflex. I came in ready to sit at my desk. No television, no way to call out. Didn’t want to be
tempted. There’s an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that’s not
good enough, you build a fence around the fence. So, no amenities, just writing.”

P.S I suggest that you get yourself nice book that you can put all your writing into. Call it your workbook.

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