The Path to Fame
For everyone who dreams of writing a book, cutting an album or producing a movie, here’s your step-by-step guide to making it happen.
How To Write A Book
... and an Album, or a Movie
2. Come up with an outline. “I had a chapter by chapter outline,” Collins says. “However, that went out the window as soon as I started. The book seemed to write itself.”
3. Get it down on paper. When you have a full-time job and busy life, finding time to sit down and write a book can be difficult. “I worked almost exclusively during lunchtime,” says Collins, who works at the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau. “I proofread on the long commute home. I tried to write a thousand words a day.”
5. Be disciplined. “What works is the very disciplined way of writing a certain number of words a day, no matter how awful I’m feeling,” says Nury Vittachi, whose 25th book, “Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics” is due out in June.
6. Create a franchise. “Publishers don’t want one-hit books,” Tong says. “They’re already asking what the next books are like. If it’s a hit and you get a name there’s always the question, What do we do next?”