| If we are honest with you, how could I possibly | | | | know it? Shall we try to prove that humanity can |
| be smart enough or wise enough to give you and | | | | indeed do this? No, because the proving would kill |
| me one of THE BIG SECRETS IN LIFE? | | | | the scientists as well. No one wants such |
| How can anyone know what THE SECRET is? | | | | pragmatic knowledge at such a great price!!! |
| Yet, let's take a shot at it. First, may I be bold | | | | Can we then in a lesser field prove what makes |
| enough to say that almost nobody under seventy | | | | for a successful novel? |
| knows what THE SECRET is. Fortunately, I am | | | | Do the successful novelists know what makes for |
| over seventy!!! | | | | their success in writing novels that sell? |
| All kidding aside, what is the SECRET BETWEEN | | | | Does Danielle Steele know consciously what sells |
| SUCCESS AND FAILURE? | | | | her novels? Has she told anyone? What is her |
| Let us start with a premise: You have to look at | | | | great secret of effectiveness, for she is the |
| the character of a person to evaluate whether | | | | most successful living author on earth with over |
| they know A SECRET OF LIFE OR NOT. Are | | | | 500 million of her books sold. Yes, I read that as |
| they: | | | | a fact somewhere, and I believe it, having |
| - developed beings, integrated and whole? | | | | analyzed one of her books. |
| - do they exploit others by lying to them or selling | | | | Not only does Danielle Steele write exciting books |
| them a job? | | | | but she has THE SECRET. It is not what current |
| - do they prove they are successful by leading | | | | New Age Sales People try to tell you THE |
| integrated lives? | | | | SECRET IS, which seems to be, THINK POSITIVE |
| - to they practice what they preach and have | | | | AND YOU WILL DRAW POSITIVE ENERGY TO |
| positive results? | | | | YOU. |
| - in their own sphere of influence with those they | | | | The secret for the successful novelist is: |
| know to they make a positive contribution to | | | | CRAFT: CRAFT! CRAFT! CRAFT! |
| their lives? | | | | Not talent alone. Not writing good sentences. Not |
| - do those who claim to have THE SECRET also | | | | having a great writer's imagination only. Not being |
| deal effectively with the NEGATIVES of life, THE | | | | a celebrity and that is what sells your books. Not |
| GREAT TESTOR? You can make your own list. | | | | having media publicity and so that makes you a |
| These are the guidelines I have used in my life | | | | best-seller writer. |
| developing myself and interacting with other | | | | CRAFT SELLS BOOKS. |
| people of note. | | | | CRAFT IS THE SECRET OF EFFECTIVENESS IN |
| Shall we add one more? Let's! | | | | THE NOVEL WRITING BUSINESS. |
| ARE THE PEOPLE WHO PROCLAIM THE SECRET | | | | That's how we see it from this end. I have a |
| MAKING A LOT OF MONEY OFF OF OTHER | | | | university masters in English Literature, and |
| PEOPLE BY PROCLAIMING THEIR SECRET? | | | | another one in Psychology, but neither university |
| Are they using money and prosperity as a chief | | | | taught me how to write novels. They taught me |
| measure to you that their secret works? | | | | how to analyze novels. They taught me how to |
| Here's the flaw in such reasoning. | | | | analyze people, not how to construct great |
| A true to reality life principle works because it is | | | | characters. |
| effective. Does your Proclaimed Secret make lot's | | | | Yet now the world is different in the new |
| of money for the few or for the many who buy | | | | century. There are a lot of writing craft courses |
| your hype and your product? Being successful for | | | | and books out there. We have utilized a lot of the |
| the few is just by chance out of the many. A | | | | best in making our huge collection of over 2000 |
| few make it and many don't. It's just like the guru | | | | writing tools and helps. We did it to learn how to |
| phenom. The guru makes it and buys Rolls | | | | write effective novels ourselves. We pass on to |
| Royce's. The followers remain poor and | | | | you, also a writer, the same writing craft tools |
| inadequate sinners while the guru or pope is seen | | | | and prompts that we are using ourselves to |
| as glorious and realized. The One and The Many | | | | improve and make dramatically effective our own |
| again. Don't think that because a few look | | | | novels and other things we do like articles and |
| successful that the many will also who also | | | | podcasts. |
| practice THE SECRET. | | | | CRAFT KNOWLEDGE USE IS THE SECRET OF |
| THE SECRET IS EFFECTIVENESS IN LIFE! | | | | EFFECTIVENESS IN WRITING A SUCCESSFUL |
| Did you know that? It's my secret. When I was in | | | | NOVEL. |
| school and university I could almost always get | | | | Don't believe me. You want to just sit down and |
| the highest grades when I wanted to and studied | | | | write, like one editor at the Writer's Digest Forum |
| hard enough. It was fun. It made me feel | | | | maintains? Well, go ahead, do it your way. You will |
| important. It gave me a sense of ego, that I am | | | | do it your way, anyway. But if you want to |
| different and better than the rest of them. | | | | become effective as a writer and stand half a |
| For some strange and evil reason school systems | | | | chance at success, you will learn your craft from |
| foster this approach by giving better grades to | | | | beginning to end. |
| the few over the many. They foster competition | | | | Be sure and study well the fifty leading writing |
| and egocentricity. It took me awhile to realize that | | | | craft books that I have. Be sure and take some |
| getting the best grades was a false measure of | | | | creative writing courses to see how little the |
| life. School and the educational system is not the | | | | instructors know about writing. Read and analyze |
| real world. The academics who run that system | | | | all the great novels you want to, and still fail to |
| are in retreat from the real world, unless an | | | | understand how to write an effective novel. Mine |
| occasional professor gets out there and invents | | | | the blogs on creative writing and drown in the |
| useful things and services that working people | | | | ideas of failure express there by so many people. |
| truly need to better their lives. | | | | No, yes, if you want success, make sure your |
| If you can be EFFECTIVE in life in various ways | | | | writing at its final stage is effective writing. If it |
| then you put your mouth where your words are. | | | | does not demand to be read by readers then it is |
| Do your words fall on shallow ground, like the | | | | not effective writing and it will never be read |
| educational system of artificial rewards and | | | | because you DON'T HAVE A GOOD STORY, and |
| punishments? Or do your words fall on fertile | | | | YOU DO NOT USE EFFECTIVE CRAFT |
| ground of hard work, commitment to excellence | | | | KNOWLEDGE TO TELL YOUR STORY. |
| and positive results for the whole team and not | | | | I have 100,000 words of my novel. I have |
| just its leaders? | | | | 350,000 books sold in eight languages. I have one |
| This is a general essay about the quality of life | | | | a best seller, The Dream Cards, at 110,000 copies |
| and how to live its real issues and solve them | | | | sold in eight languages around the world. This is no |
| positively. Now we take the focus to writing as a | | | | bragging. This is reality testing. I am trying to |
| serious endeavor. | | | | write well because I love writing and because I |
| WRITING THE NOVEL OR SCREEN PLAY AND | | | | want to be successful in real terms at it. |
| SUCCEEDING AT IT | | | | My latest research? It is my podcasts which got |
| We can give you no magic formula here but we | | | | 63,000 listeners in the first year. During that same |
| can take a strong position in the right direction | | | | time the podcasts that got me the most listeners |
| that has worked for us. | | | | was the Prologue to my Jesus Novel at around |
| THE SECRET IS EFFECTIVENESS IN LIFE AND IN | | | | 4000 listeners. A number of other podcasts are |
| WRITING | | | | almost up there with this number, such as my |
| We don't care so much what you have to do to | | | | Loving Laurie podcast. |
| get there, but you should do almost all your | | | | Yet the top one is The Prologue To The Jesus |
| actions to problem-solve effectively. | | | | Novel. I put it there to get response, to test the |
| YOU MUST PROBLEM-SOLVE REAL PROBLEMS | | | | market. I put this podcast out in two parts to get |
| AND CREATE PRODUCTS AND VALUES OF | | | | public response from strangers. Could I gauge the |
| EXCELLENCE TO PROVE EFFECTIVENESS IN | | | | interest in the subject matter, and would people |
| LIFE. | | | | actually listen in large numbers? |
| THE SECRET IS EFFECTIVENESS. | | | | This is the testing of EFFECTIVENESS. |
| Effectiveness is when what happens consistently | | | | EFFECTIVENESS FOR A WRITER IS GREAT |
| is what we intend to happen. When the scientists | | | | STORY WEDDED TO GREAT CRAFT IN |
| produced the first atomic bomb they were not | | | | WRITING IT. |
| sure from their physics knowledge what would | | | | We stand behind our comprehensive collection of |
| actually happen. Would the chain reaction of | | | | writing craft tools. We were astounded that only |
| splitting atoms form a reaction in all matter and | | | | one writing craft book had a large collection of |
| almost instantly destroy the world? Or would the | | | | writing tools and the others didn't. We were |
| bomb explosion be localized to only the radioactive | | | | astounded that our writing course instructors did |
| materials in the bomb itself. The bomb worked | | | | not give us writing tools but simply readings from |
| and now physics as a valid body of truth is | | | | novels and memoirs to comment on, and also |
| confirmed forever. It is not just theoretical but | | | | made banal comments on our own work. Ho-Hum! |
| practical. The scientists produced what they | | | | If you want EFFECTIVENESS in life, learn the |
| intended to produce. | | | | necessary craft that goes with your field. If you |
| In any field, ask how can you become effective | | | | want to be a successful lover, don't just go for |
| and solve at least some of the problems in that | | | | experiences. Go for quality. Go for excellence. |
| field? | | | | Learn from the best teachers who know their |
| In writing the novel it is the same situation as in | | | | love craft. Learn! Problem-Solve! Create Excellence. |
| physics. Can we produce the bomb? Can we | | | | To do this you have to be effective in life, do |
| create something that can almost instantly kill | | | | you not? |
| millions of people and end life on earth as we | | | | We wish you all the success possible to you in life! |