I believe that to truly be successful in writing you have to wake up every morning thinking about it, talk to your characters as if they were your best friends in the whole wide world, see that the world is in black, yellow, white, orange, red, blue, turquoise, silver, and gold, think of everyone around you as if they are characters in a story, write like theirs no tomorrow, have crazy random thoughts that only a writer could have, risk everything for the love of writing and lastly never give up even if everyone says it sucks.