Nate Kontny, an entrepreneur, discusses the importance of luck in his success: «
I got lucky a writer with a lot of clout took interest in my project — interest that started because he once worked on a similar project seven years prior, so he understood the challenges I was addressing.
Not exact matches
Even very fast
writers are
lucky to
get 500 usable words in an hour.
I was
lucky enough to be accepted by Cardiff University for a postgraduate course in popular journalism, and even
got a grant from the Association of British Science
Writers and the Wellcome Trust.
Should we say a
writer is a
writer and an author is someone
lucky enough to
get past the blasé use and need of an agent and certain agencies to
get published?
Frustrated
writers the world over are finally
getting the chance to live out their dream, and a
lucky few are even
getting paid for it.
Even if you
get a traditional publishing deal, the days of big advances for first time
writers are largely gone (unless you are extremely
lucky), and you will still be expected to do a significant amount of marketing work on your own.
So for an entire decade, the
writers lucky enough to
get through this system also taught it to younger
writers, believing it was the way things were done.
As a
writer, why should I spend months or years writing a book only to
get, if I'm
lucky, 25 % of net and, from that, having to pay for my own editing (if I want to make sure it is edited properly) and my own promotion when I can
get 70 % if I self - publish through Amazon?
Most
writers are
lucky to
get to the end of a novel with anything more than a gut sense of what they did.
If a
writer is
lucky enough to
get a gigantic advance — which Joe guesses only happens in less than 0.1 % of legacy contracts — royalties don't matter because they won't ever be earned out.
I will, somehow, make sure more
writers of color and women
get the chance to be this
lucky and hold such blessings in the warmth of their hands.
I
got pretty
lucky with the timing of available
Writer Pool articles, but even without
Writer Pool articles, there's still decent money to be made on CC.
If you are not
lucky enough and have
got to work on an uninteresting concept, then seek help from our operations management assignment
writers without any delay.
Some
writers have
gotten lucky and made more on fewer books, but I just flat don't believe in luck as a business plan.
If your pacesetters are other
writers, you
get lucky on this front: many
writers openly track their goals and successes through blog posts, podcasts, and / or YouTube videos.
It is an arbitrary number, determined by the economics of how many new titles they plan to put out, how many of those will be filled by their best sellers, how many will be filled by their mid-list
writers and how many will go to the
lucky few to
get past the gatekeepers.
Yes, some
writers get lucky breaks.
Each book you publish will probably do a little better, because you'll be learning and improving all the time, and growing your author platform (unless you're one of those
writers who is completely ignoring your author platform, not learning anything about marketing, and just hoping to
get lucky).
I've also been
lucky to
get some early coverage of the book, including in The Atlantic Magazine's «Cities» site, Bark Magazine,
Writers Digest and Animal Farm Foundation's blog.
So this
lucky writer is in Yokohama, Japan, where Nissan is
getting ready to unveil its global electric car.
I picked up this
writer at random and have never stopped wondering on how I managed to
get so
lucky.