How to become a famous writer

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/article/2014/09/30/how-to-become-a-famous-author/

      Being a famous writer is not a very easy profession to achieve. To become writer it takes just one night but if you want to be famous writer you have to spend not just one night, it should be nights and perhaps years to become a famous writer.

To become a famous writer you have consider this tips:

1.      You have to be writer.

a.      Study and read all you can

      Enroll in a course that helps you to become a good writer and study hard to reach your goal successfully. Many say that a good listener is a good speaker at the same if you want to be a good writer you have also to be a good reader. You read and read any book that you like and could give you a lot of knowledge to be a good writer. Also in reading you have to consider the writer, preferably a famous one, for you to have an idea why does he becomes the best seller for one year, what are the styles he uses to write that book.

b.      Learn to correct your grammar

    Your grammar is very important when you want to be a famous writer. The way you used and arrange words syntactically will help you express your thoughts without ambiguity for the readers to interpret it clearly on what you tend to let them interpret.

     Indeed grammar usage is difficult and confusing. So to memorize the grammar usage you have to use them little by little and as you use them you can notice some improvements.

c.       Look for someone to look up to

     To help you becomes motivated and be a successful writer try to look for a famous writer that you really admired.

d.      Set a schedule and find a better place to write

    Setting a schedule for writing your first novel or a short story will help you distinguished your daily task appropriately. Find a place that no one could disturb you with just a nonsense chat. By finding the best place to write, perhaps on a quiet and open place would help you think faster for a better outcome.

e.       Keep a journal or a diary

     Keeping a journal or a diary with you all the time can help you jot down all the ideas on how you see things around you and for your funny experiences that inspires you even sad moments that you think you can use when you write someday soon.

    And when you think that you already have tons of thoughts that would eventually explode. Start to write and publish what you wrote through internet like wattpad or write it on your blog suite. It will help your writing exposed and be discovered. Like the writer of The Diary ng Panget written by Haveyouseenthisgirl that spreads on e-book and later becomes a movie. Indeed she became famous.

f.        Love your own

Do not compare your writing to other people who degrade you and look to you like they were the best writer in the world. Just stay focused to your goals silently and let your success take pride for you. For if become curious about yourself you can no longer focus to your goals instead you always find a way to beat those haughty people.

g.      Relax

Have some time for yourself, relax and enjoy by travelling to other places or just even window shopping. It could really help you stay motivated and inspired for a great masterpiece.

2.      What famous writers do from James Clear site

a.      E.B. White: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”

In an interview with The Paris Review, E.B. White, the famous author of Charlotte’s Web, talked about his daily writing routine…

     I never listen to music when I’m working. I haven’t that kind of attentiveness, and I wouldn’t like it at all. On the other hand, I’m able to work fairly well among ordinary distractions. My house has a living room that is at the core of everything that goes on: it is a passageway to the cellar, to the kitchen, to the closet where the phone lives. There’s a lot of traffic. But it’s a bright, cheerful room, and I often use it as a room to write in, despite the carnival that is going on all around me.

     In consequence, the members of my household never pay the slightest attention to my being a writing man — they make all the noise and fuss they want to. If I get sick of it, I have places I can go. A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.

b.      Haruki Murakami: “The repetition itself becomes the important thing.”

        In a 2004 interview, Murakami discussed his physical and mental habits…

       When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m.

      I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

     But to hold to such repetition for so long — six months to a year — requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

c.       Jodi Picoult: “You can’t edit a blank page.”

      The last seven books Jodi Picoult has written have all hit number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In an interview with Noah Charney, she talks about her approach to writing and creating…

       I don’t believe in writer’s block. Think about it — when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn’t it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer’s block is having too much time on your hands. If you have a limited amount of time to write, you just sit down and do it. You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Maya Angelou: “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

        In a 2013 interview with The Daily Beast, the American author and poet discussed her writing career and her daily work habits…

       I keep a hotel room in my hometown and pay for it by the month.

I go around 6:30 in the morning. I have a bedroom, with a bed, a table, and a bath. I have Roget’s Thesaurus, a dictionary, and the Bible. Usually a deck of cards and some crossword puzzles. Something to occupy my little mind. I think my grandmother taught me that. She didn’t mean to, but she used to talk about her “little mind.” So when I was young, from the time I was about 3 until 13, I decided that there was a Big Mind and a Little Mind. And the Big Mind would allow you to consider deep thoughts, but the Little Mind would occupy you, so you could not be distracted. It would work crossword puzzles or play Solitaire, while the Big Mind would delve deep into the subjects I wanted to write about.

       I have all the paintings and any decoration taken out of the room. I ask the management and housekeeping not to enter the room, just in case I’ve thrown a piece of paper on the floor, I don’t want it discarded. About every two months I get a note slipped under the door: “Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linen. We think it may be moldy!”

      But I’ve never slept there, I’m usually out of there by 2. And then I go home and I read what I’ve written that morning, and I try to edit then. Clean it up.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

d.      Nathan Englander: “Turn off your cell phone.”

Englander is an award–winning short story writer, and in this interview he talks about his quest to eliminate all distractions from his writing routine…

        Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is you’re doing, it needs to stop while you write. A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), I’ll write with earplugs in — even if it’s dead silent at home.

e.       Karen Russell: “Enjoy writing badly.”

Russell has only written one book … and it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In an interview with The Daily Beast, she talks about her daily struggle to overcome distraction and write…

       I know many writers who try to hit a set word count every day, but for me, time spent inside a fictional world tends to be a better measure of a productive writing day. I think I’m fairly generative as a writer, I can produce a lot of words, but volume is not the best metric for me. It’s more a question of, did I write for four or five hours of focused time, when I did not leave my desk, didn’t find some distraction to take me out of the world of the story? Was I able to stay put and commit to putting words down on the page, without deciding mid-sentence that it’s more important to check my email, or “research” some question online, or clean out the science fair projects in the back for my freezer?

       I’ve decided that the trick is just to keep after it for several hours, regardless of your own vacillating assessment of how the writing is going. Showing up and staying present is a good writing day.

       I think it’s bad so much of the time. The periods where writing feels effortless and intuitive are, for me, as I keep lamenting, rare. But I think that’s probably the common ratio of joy to despair for most writers, and I definitely think that if you can make peace with the fact that you will likely have to throw out 90 percent of your first draft, then you can relax and even almost enjoy “writing badly.”

     To become a famous writers there are many things to consider but if you take this steps there should be a shimmering future behind you.