An Overnight Success

Becoming an overnight success and making millions of dollars is easy, just ask ... Starbucks. Think about the first time you ever heard about an "americano" or a "latte" and started enjoying coffee. I'll be it was in the mid to late 1980s just about the time everyone in North America was discovering Starbucks. But did you know that Starbucks actually started in 1971, yes, it took Starbucks about 17 years to become an overnight success.Other overnight successes, include Mc Donalds and KFC which took 15 years to become an overnight success, and the list goes on.

What this tells us is that there are very few "J.K. Rowling" stories anywhere in the world where someone has become an overnight success. Even J.K. Rowling to in excess of 5 years, and in anyone's book that could be considered overnight, but for most authors gaining success is a long, long tedious job of slugging things out for years and years before things start to get easy and success starts to manifest its'elf.

The truth is, you have a MUCH better chance of being struck by lightning than becoming an overnight success ... and here's why. Every year in North America 90 people are struck and killed by lightning. Every year in North America one or two NEW authors "might" sell enough books to be considered a best seller ... and those are the statistics.

Every author I talk to fully believes their book will be a "Best Seller". To-date, none have been, but they are all working hard to try to make their books the best, and that is exactly what they need to do. You can NEVER lose heart with your project. Finish it, make it, market it and when it begins to become exhausted, start on the next book project because what you learned on the first project will come easy on the second and you will become even more successful on the second book.

This is WHY it takes many authors well into their 5th, 6th ... 10th book before they start feeling the effects of the "overnight success syndrome". They have paid their dues so to speak, learned the business, educated their clients and now they can begin to reap the fruits of all their hard work ... the work doesn't end, only the hard work, the projects and the work carry on.

The process of being a writer and an author is more of an ideology than "a job" and therefore requires activities to be even more determined in order to achieve success.

Copyright - Colin Knecht
Bookmarkselfpublsihing.com

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