Keith Boykin is doing it, you can't do it too. Don't discount your value before you've even tried. We have to abandon the notion of scarcity, that there are only so many people who can succeed at any given time. The universe is big enough for all of us to succeed. The abundance of the world is ours for the taking.
Life is filled with experiences to write about.
Sometimes we think our lives are too dull to merit writing about them, but you really may not appreciate how exciting your life is until you sit down and start to think about it on paper. When I walk down the street, I see so many interesting people who could make fascinating characters in a book. On the surface, they may appear to be one-dimensional, but if you start to explore who they are and how they got there, you're likely to find a great story. The first book, One More River to Cross , did very well. First, the sales went well enough for it to be re-published in paperback last year.