Which is to say that you can take all of the advice, do all of the hard work needed, and come up with a big fat zero. The odds of an American or British person making it to the top of the list are already incredibly minuscule, So yes, it is worth praising the authors for somehow getting to this point.
Even so, the odds are so stacked against everybody else that you have better odds of getting to Mars this weekend.
Fair enough. But there's a pretty good chance that writing is not like gardening. Most people who end up gardening won't do so for any competition or even any monetary gain. It's purely a hobby and, therefore, a very creative practise.
Writing needs an audience, and audiences are found on lists. By virtue of the world we live in today, the lists are located in just two spots on the planet. Yes, gardening works for anyone anywhere in the world, and I suppose writing does too, but then you have to expect that your audience could be infinitely small.
Roughly 65% of the authors who hit these lists are American, while about 30% are British. The remaining ~5% is split among the rest of the world (Canada, Australia, Ireland, Europe, etc.).And then it's other countries, which is an even smaller percentage, even though they might be English-speaking authors.
The advice works, but where you live and what resources you have are really the biggest benchmarks of all, because it can't be that the rest of the world doesn't know how to write well.
Which is to say that you can take all of the advice, do all of the hard work needed, and come up with a big fat zero. The odds of an American or British person making it to the top of the list are already incredibly minuscule, So yes, it is worth praising the authors for somehow getting to this point.
Even so, the odds are so stacked against everybody else that you have better odds of getting to Mars this weekend.
I wasn’t saying this was about making it on the bestseller list. Just developing a productive creative practice.
Fair enough. But there's a pretty good chance that writing is not like gardening. Most people who end up gardening won't do so for any competition or even any monetary gain. It's purely a hobby and, therefore, a very creative practise.
Writing needs an audience, and audiences are found on lists. By virtue of the world we live in today, the lists are located in just two spots on the planet. Yes, gardening works for anyone anywhere in the world, and I suppose writing does too, but then you have to expect that your audience could be infinitely small.
Roughly 65% of the authors who hit these lists are American, while about 30% are British. The remaining ~5% is split among the rest of the world (Canada, Australia, Ireland, Europe, etc.).And then it's other countries, which is an even smaller percentage, even though they might be English-speaking authors.
The advice works, but where you live and what resources you have are really the biggest benchmarks of all, because it can't be that the rest of the world doesn't know how to write well.