Authors of classic books seem to all just “have it”. So what is their secret and how do they use it? Fear no more, I’m here to reveal all the secrets they might have known.

It takes long to get a classic status. If nobody likes your book, you might be on the correct path: your book is misunderstood and therefore disliked. In around 50 years it just might be the next big classic! Write when you feel like it. Classics are not made by writing constantly. Instead, authors claim that the books are written in spontaneous spurts. Write under influence of something different. Many of us have tried using coffee. In some cases even caffeine may work. Perhaps your mind is unique and needs different kind of drugs! Be open-minded! Be yourself. I can’t emphasize this enough. You are a unique snowflake, and you have to write that specific snowflake to be unique. Don’t be afraid. Try different ways and break rules. Sometimes mistakes in grammar can be very entertaining! Be arrogant. Appreciate your own works. If your books are to become classics, they’re not appreciated by others, so you have to do it all yourself! Say more than you mean. This way the reader find their own unique meaning! Leave your book unfinished. Now you can watch the critics make weird theories about it, thus making it more famous. (Especially Kafka did this with huge success.) Make current generation hate it. The children of that generation will love the book, only because their parents hated it.

Now you have it, there’s your ~10 ways to write a classic. Now, get out of your computer and go write that classic. Publish it early and you will be famous earlier.

Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicDiscussion

https://www.reddit.com/r/writing

https://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/go-go-nanowrimo?utm_term=.xpzqO2RN1l#.dnr73A6D48

https://www.4chan.org/lit/