Jody Weiner On The 5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer

Discipline: regularly sit at your computer or however else you write, even when you do not want to. You have to show up and be ready when the muse strikes.

Some writers and authors have a knack for using language that can really move people. Some writers and authors have been able to influence millions with their words alone. What does it take to become an effective and successful author or writer? In this interview series, called “5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer” we are talking to successful authors and writers who can share lessons from their experiences.

As part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jody Weiner. Jody Weiner, writer, attorney and producer, wrote the novel Prisoners of Truth, a national IPPY award winner, was a consulting producer and wrote additional dialogue for the animated feature film Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil; was consulting producer/counsel for the Genesis award-winning documentary A Conversation with Koko, and his new novel is Raise Your Other Right Hand. Weiner has been a practicing attorney for over forty years, lives with his wife, Nancy Calef, a fine artist and singer songwriter, and he currently serves as Board President of San…