Write Your Novel To Be a Bestseller (Don't just dream it, do it)

It's such an incredible feeling to finally finish a novel. I mean, to just think "wow, I wrote a book" is amazing. But then comes the revision process...you take a look at what you wrote in the first draft and...wow. If you're anything like me (and especially if you wrote the novel for NaNoWriMo) then you probably see a pile of words strewn onto the page whith more than a couple plot holes and maybe even an empty plot or some bland characters. 

Or maybe, you could quite possibly be at the very beginning. You haven't written a single word (or maybe you've written the first chapter a thousand times). 

Either way, I think we all want our novels to be bestsellers once they get published. So what's the key? How do you write a novel that everyone will be sure to love? Well, it's simple really.

​Write your novel to be a best-seller.

This is some amazing advice that I received from a friend a while back. I was telling him how I'd love for my novel to be a bestseller once it's published. And he said it so simply -- "then write it to be one"

If you want to be the author of a bestseller...then write a bestseller. 

I told him that I would try. And you know what he said? Don't try, just do it. 

Think about your favorite novels. How do they begin? How do they end? How do they tie everything together perfectly in the middle? What makes the characters relatable? What makes them loveable? How does the novel intriuge you? Think about all of those things that you love about your favorite novels...and then write a novel that you would love to read.

As you're writing each word, pretend you're the most famous author in the world. Pretend that this novel is going to be on most everybody's bookshelf, in libraries, in the news even for how well it's written.

Think about what you'd love to read, think about what a bestseller would look like...and then go write one.

​Don't just dream it, do it.