THE TOP 10 “COMMON ELEMENTS” in current BEST-SELLER NOVELS
Posted: March 30, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 5 CommentsSo… Stieg Larsson, Stephanie Meyer, J K Rowling, James Patterson and Dan Brown…
- Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are investigating/pursued by killers
- Potter has to find out who killed his parents; people are trying to kill him
- Cross always has to solve a murder;
- Langdon has to work out who is killing these people, and why;
- Bella has to urgently find out whether she should:
- a) abstain from having sex with a vampire, or
- b) abstain from having sex with a werewolf – (before someone gets themself killed.)
Small words. Short sentences.
- Salander’s journey is “all about Revenge” (she even literally says this, at the end of the 3rd book), as is Blomkvist’s journey (given the events at the start of the 1st book)
- Potter wants to/(has to) avenge his parents death by Voldemort;
- Cross is always trying to avenge the deaths of murder victims;
- Langdon is trying to take revenge on the Church for its crimes;
- and the 2 individual males – and their `tribes’ – tussling over Bella in `Twilight’ are constantly Revenging on each other, at every alternate step, in her evolving relationship with them – though sometimes Bella talks them out of it.)
(And – they have all therefore been Optioned, Adapted, and Filmed and – Marketed back to the mainstream, and – fans of the books. Which is the mainstream anyway.)
(Note also that – those 3 (latter) novels AREN’T mystery-thrillers, as such. Certainly not with the Sherlock Holmes/Agatha Christie-style suspense-mystery-thrillery-ness about them…)
The Millennium trilogy books are especially great at this.
This also ties back into point #1, all of them are in the Suspense-Mystery-Thriller Genre.
But – make him an investigative journalist, or a wizard in high school, or a Jedi Knight in space, or a forensic psychologist in New York, or religious symbologist in Paris, or heck – maybe a tree-doctor in the Sahara. (Why not?)
- Harry Potter is `special’ – born of `special’ parents, with an amazing talent. (See: Luke Skywalker in `Star Wars’.)
- Cross is a super-sleuth, as well as being a strong, handsome, intelligent black man.
- Langdon is a genius symbologist/academic / “cryptographer / code-cracker” type.
- Bella… hmmm, isn’t really that great at anything much, but she is one hot, sulky, sultry babe. Not `average’.
- Lisbeth Salander and Michael Blomkvist are phenomenally-gifted experts at what they do. Lisbeth is one of the 30 best computer hackers in the world(!) and a mathematics genius (see Fermat’s Last Theorem in the novels..). And – Blomkvist is an exceptionally-bright, gifted and talented investigative journalist.
ie – These are NOT ordinary/Everyman/Everywoman people by any stretch. – They are all `super-special’ or outstanding in some, or even many ways.
That’s my `take’ on why those best-selling novels (novelists) are all successful – and what you need to do, if you want to emulate that Bestseller success. They all do those 10 things.
PS – If you want some inspiration, read this novel:
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Posted: August 7, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentSee? I told you.
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JoeTV
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Posted: August 7, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentWell.
Nothing to see here folks.
I haven’t posted anything yet.
(Unless you include this post. But it is just a post about being a First Post)
Meantime – while we are all waiting for me to post something worth reading, maybe visit my other Blogs, or – just talk amongst yourselves, or something.
http://on-writering.blogspot.com/
and
Well, our time here today has come to an end.
Thanks for being a part of my first WordPress Blog post – which, frankly, is not really about anything.
See you (in the Future, probably. ie – as opposed to the Past – probably.)
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JoeTV
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