This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.

Did you know that there is a formula for success?

Did you know that there is a formula for success?

Did you know that there was a formula for success and excellence that it doesn't just happen?

While some of us are born, beautiful, or born smart, I guess with a high IQ whatever that means true success vast

majority of people who are successful there's a formula for it and the reason why

I bring this up I get all the time people email me and they say,

you know, Karen, can you help me with my book or, you know, I want to be a writer, can you give me some tips?

And my response is always the same. First of all I'm busy. No.

Right. The way to become a great writer is to write. Get up every day, write a page, get up every day and write

500 words, write a thousand words every single day. And soon you will see that you'll be a writer. When I started at the New York Daily News

a thousand years ago, I didn't consider myself a writer. As a matter of fact, I was very insecure about my writing. I would have so many writing books in my desk

drawer because I just didn't feel confident. And I remember when that clicked for me and it was shortly after I wrote my first book.

I didn't think I was a writer when I wrote my first book.

I thought I was just following a format.

But that gave me my training was, but what I didn't consider was by the time I wrote my first book which was in 1997

I think it was 1997 I make my own rules with L.L. Koj. I had been a writer, I'm putting up air quotes for eight years, nine years.

That writing every day, which I was doing for the New York Daily News,

writing every day for eight years, I had probably put in more than 10,000 hours.

And then the book put me over the top,

because that was 60,000 words.

So there's this is math. This is not a mystery.

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