Some Hints on the Super Great Challenges
THESE HINTS CAN APPLY CHALLENGE OR NOT…
Those of you who are thinking of going for the $10,000 Lifetime Everything Subscription by having a fantastic year writing and publishing, or those of you who are just wanting to streamline a fantastic year writing, let me give you some hints to help out.
Hint #1… Plan your writing hours to be as consistent as possible each week. Set a time each day and hit it.
Hint #2… If you need 5,000 words a week, plan to do 7,500 words. You can always use the extra words the following week. But if you only plan exactly what you need and things miss slightly, then you get behind and that does not help writing.
Hint #3… Do some practice covers and then set up a template you can just drop your new story and title into.
Hint #4… Keep all steps totally in your control, which means no copyediting to mess up your schedule. Read the story aloud to yourself which will find a ton of typos.
Hint #5… Practice on a few stories ahead with Vellum or your layout program, then set a template once you found a look and layout you like.
Hint #6… Have all your back matter done so you can just copy it into place in each story or book.
Hint #7… Have all your publishing accounts set up ahead and have run a few stories through them. Set up licensing accounts on Amazon, Kobo, D2D, B&N, and iBooks. You can also add in GooglePlay and Ingrams electronic (need an ISBN for that one.)
Hint #8… Set your publishing deadline three days ahead of the challenge deadline and forget the challenge deadline. That way if there is a slip, you don’t miss the challenge deadline.
Hint #9… For challenge people… Don’t forget to send me the required steps and don’t do it five minutes before midnight. Give yourself a day or two ahead.
Some Reminders…
Besides having a regular writing schedule and becoming very comfortable with publishing your work, you get the following if you do one of the super great challenges…
— If you hit the SUPER GREAT CHALLENGE, you will have written 52 new stories and all will be published. That will jump your writing forward more than you can even imagine. And get a $10,000 value Lifetime Everything Subscription.
— If you hit the SUPER GREAT NOVELLA CHALLENGE, you will have written 12 new novellas and have them published and they count toward the magic 20 discoverability. Huge jump forward. And get a $10,000 value Lifetime Everything Subscription.
— If you hit the SUPER GREAT NOVEL CHALLENGE, you will have written 9 new novels and have them published. This is huge for sales and your discoverability. And get a $10,000 value Lifetime Everything Subscription.
— If you hit the SUPER GREAT PUBLISHING CHALLENGE, you will have published 17 new things wide, all major books such as novels, novellas, collections, and omnibus, which is right at the discoverability part of publishing and all in one year. And get a $10,000 value Lifetime Everything Subscription.
On any of the Super Great challenges, the cost is $600, but if you use the code:
EarlyBird
You get 20% off. ($480)
(And yes, if you miss, you still get $600 credit.)
Early Bird sale will last for one week. (5 days left)
But if you make any of these new SUPER GREAT challenges, you get the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION worth $10,000.
Remember, if you miss you still have books published and you get $600 in credit on Teachable.
Write me if you have questions. Full rules are on each challenge on Teachable or two posts back.