Hi
You know the band who smashed it with their first album and then found it difficult to repeat their success?
Their record company is screaming: Just do it again, give us the hits!
Why can’t they repeat the magic?
Possibly because that first album may only have taken two months to record but...
They've been working on it for the last five years.
Playing live, night after night.
Desperately trying to be noticed. Tweaking their songs in front of hundreds of critical audiences.
Eventually signing the deal and turning graft into hits.
Then they tour the album.
Their fame is growing.
Those same songs they played to 15 people are now being performed to thousands. They love it!
The pressure is on. Can they produce something that had previously taken five years and perfect it in five months?
Writers are presented with the same predicament.
Their first book is the one they worked on for years - usually in their heads before getting it on paper.
But what about their second or third?
Ken Follett wrote several books (working as a night security guard) before 'Eye Of The Needle' became a huge success.
He explained that he had to write the other books to realise that people don’t care about the plot until they care about the characters.
Almost everyone has heard of Dale Carnegie’s 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', but how many of his 14 other books can you name?
The average successful author has written 3.24 books before they have a hit.
The key? Writers must keep Writing.
Testing, sharing, learning.
We never stop.
Be Brilliant!
