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There are five prerequisites to being a successful writer. By this, I mean a writer who produces and completes work rather than one guaranteed a best-seller. No one can guarantee that, but you cannot be the latter without being the former. Follow these five rules to ensure you have all you need to write.
- Time
You need time to write. This doesn’t have to mean resigning the day job or paying out for childcare. Work with what you have and make it work for you. Find out when you write best and eek out some time. This could be scribbling in a notebook on your morning train, half an hour in the evening at your laptop or getting up ridiculously early as one of my writer friends does. What works for one writer, will not work for every writer (there is no way I am getting up at half past four to write for an hour) and what worked for one era of your life may not work throughout the rest of your writing life. Life changes, stuff happens. I used to be a late-night writer, now — after giving birth to two sleep thieves — I write best during the little one’s lunch-time nap and can sometimes manage an hour after the children’s bedtime before my brain turns to mush. The important thing is to make time to write and to write every day.
2) A Medium
Every writer has their favourite way of writing and it may take you some time to find yours…
