No One Can Do My Writing Challenge

No long ago I set up a writing challenge.

I called it The 12 Month Writing Challenge.

The idea is that you download the writing challenge, and follow it through for one whole year.

And by the time you've finished you'll have earned a minimum $36,000 from your writing.

Sounds simple, doesn't it?

So why is it that no one can do it?

I've lost count of the number of people who've downloaded a copy over the last few years, yet not one of them has ever got back to me and said, "Hey, guess what? I've finished the challenge!"

Instead all I ever hear are stories of how people have started the challenge, but given up after the first month.

Can you believe they give up so quickly?

Some make it to the second month, but that's as far as I'm aware that anyone has ever gotten.

I admit that the first 2 months is a lot of work to do, but it's not impossible to do, especially for anyone who wants to take their writing serious and make money.

The challenge not only leads you through a whole year of writing, but it also helps you to set up a blog, write ebooks, do lot of marketing, do freelance writing and a whole lot more.

And the best part is that once you have all your accounts and everything else set up and you've completed your first of writing, the rest is easy.

Not only that but what you've already done will carry on earning you money for years.

And no matter how you choose to earn money from your writing,it doesn't matter whether you download my 12 Month Writing Challenge or not, because the same goes for which ever way you do it.

If you spend the next year freelance writing, setting up a money-making blog, writing ebooks, marketing, affiliate marketing and more, then there's no way you can fail.

It stands to reason that if you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

But...and here is the real challenge, you have to get it going and keep it going.

Quitting is not an option if you want to be a prolific and successful writer.

It wasn't easy for me in the beginning because there wasn't as much information online about it all back then so I kind of floundered a bit trying to find my way to making a living as an online writer.

But I did make it. And I wrote The 12 Month Writing Challenge to help others.

But, you just can't help some people. :)

I just hope that you're not one of them.

If you don't already have your own 12 month plan of how you're going to make money from your writing, then it's time you made one.

And as the great motivational speaker Mike Litman used to say, You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going.

So how are you aiming to get things going?

Do You Have to Write Books to Make Money From Writing

So the question is, if you want to make money from your writing, do you have to write books?

And the simple answer is, no.

Naturally, being able to write and publish your own books is really helpful, but there are many people all over the world making money from their writing and they've never written a book in their life and they don't intend to.

For example, journalists make their living from writing, but they're not book authors.

Likewise, there are many other ways to earn money as a writer without writing a book.

I used to work exclusively as a freelance writer when I first started writing. I wrote articles and short stories for magazines and also for clients.

Mostly my clients wanted me to write online articles or to proof read and edit books that they'd written. And that was fine with me

Until one day, it occurred to me that if they could afford to pay me for what I did to help them, how much money were they earning from my work?

That's when I began to look for ways to earn money from my own writing. But I still wasn't ready to write a book.

I searched around online and found the wonderful world of affiliate marketing and began to earn money from writing articles to promote other people's products and posting on social media, etc.

It was only a matter of time though, before I started writing my own ebooks.

But I still do affiliate marketing because it's still a great way to earn money from writing.

And like I've always said, writing is numbers game because the more you write, the more money you can earn.

And writing marketing articles is faster than writing a book.

So if you want to make money from writing, you don't have to write any books because affiliate marketing is just one of the many ways you can earn money as a writer.

And it all creates a really amazing passive income.

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Why Writers Are Lazy

Are writers lazy?

No.

But you'd be forgiven for thinking that they are.

Why?

Because being a writer means sitting down for a while, writing, and then finishing for the day.

From the outside it looks like doing nothing.

But a writer's brain is always active. Probably more active than most people's.

There are also those who give writers a bad name.

These are people who say they're writers, but they never write. They aren't writers at all but they tell others that they are.

And because non-writers don't understand what it takes to be a successful writer, they think that all writers are lazy.

Being a successful writer means to write every day.

Many writers hold down full time jobs while they write in their spare time, while others work full time at their writing.

I find that I spend every day writing and marketing.

I'm either writing my own books or writing articles to market the ones I already have or to sell affiliate products.

And marketing comes in many shapes and forms including article marketing, guest blogging, social media, forums, commenting and more.

And while it is work, it's pleasurable at the same time. It's something I love to do.

I'd hate to have to go out to work every day.

Instead I sit and home and write.

It's taken me years to build up a good daily writing habit.

But it's something that has made me as successful as I am.

And how do I define successful?

I earn all my income from my writing.

Which is what I was aiming for all along.

Now, if only someone would make a movie out of one of my fiction books...

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Sometimes if can seem difficult to be creative all the time and to constantly be coming up with new ideas of what to work on next.

But I’ve discovered a way to boost my creativity on a daily basis and it’s so easy I wish I’d started doing it years ago.

As a writer I read a lot, and recently I’ve been reading about meditation and all the amazing studies about how it’s benefiting so many people.

So I downloaded a free app called Insight Timer onto my iPhone and set it for 10 minutes.

Now, every morning, before I begin work for the day, I start the timer and sit for 10 minutes with my eyes closed and try to think of nothing but my breathing.

At first it felt like 10 minutes of wasted time, but the changes can’t be ignored.




The 10 minutes seems like only 2 minutes and once the little mindfulness bell rings to end my session, I feel calmer and ready for the day.

My thinking ability has been improved and it now takes me less time to think of things.

I now get far more ideas much faster than before so that instead of writers’ block, I have idea overload.

And at the same time I feel like I have more clarity of thought so that not only do I get great ideas of what to write about, but I also know how to use it.

Not only does this make it easier for me to work, but my ideas are implemented with better strategies and this has positively affected my income through more sales.

It’s hard to explain the benefits of my 10 minute daily meditations, which seem so simple when I do them yet their reach is greater than I could ever have imagined.

It’s something that you really need to experience for yourself to fully understand it.

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As you are probably aware, next Saturday is Valentine's Day.

Personally it's not a day I celebrate at all (I love my husband every day and I don't have to give him a gift or card to prove it) but I know most people do.

Amazon also knows that most people celebrate Valentine's Day and they are offering 2 really great special offers for those who are romantically inclined on the 14th February every year.

This year they are offering 50 romance Kindle ebooks for only $2 each. So if you want to snuggle up with a good romantic story, this is a great opportunity.

Also they are offering a discount on their Kindle PaperWhite eReader which makes it a good time to purchase a Kindle Reading device and goes hand in hand with the discounted ebook offer.

And of course, if you don't have a Kindle eReader and you don't want to purchase one, you can still take advantage of the special offer ebooks by downloading the free Kindle reading app so that you can read your Kindle ebooks on your smart phone, iPad and/or computer.

And your ebooks will sync across all your devices so no matter where you're up to in the ebook, you can continue reading on all of your devices. Just make sure you have the free Kindle reading app installed on them all.

Amazon also has many ebooks available for free all the time and others that are on a free special promotion for a short limited time.

So with the free ebooks and the free reading app, you can download as many ebooks as you want and start reading them straight away.

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The Quiet Way to Greater Creativity

If you've been following me for some time, you'll know that I love using relaxing audios and brain entrainment audios to help me unwind, re-focus and calm my crazy monkey mind.

I find them so helpful and they've certainly had a profound effect on the way I live and the way I work.

My favourite audios to use are Brain Evolution System and Brain Salon. Both of which you can download a demo of for free if you're curious.

Those who are regular meditators usually have a place in their house reserved for meditating.

It's usually a quiet corner with a comfortable cushion to sit on plus maybe some incense or scented candles. And they often use audio to enhance their meditation session plus to help block out other noises.

They sit in their corner for 30 or 60 minutes at a time and quiet their mind.

I don't have a corner for meditating, but I'm thinking of having one.

But I do use audio to help me relax and quietly meditate and it's shortly after these times that I have many aha! moments about my writing and online businesses and I become far more productive.

That's why I love to take time out to think about nothing for a while. It really helps to reboot my hectic mind which is always full of 'chatter.'

And even if you're not interested in buying audios or downloading free demos, you really should think about spending a bit of quiet time every day to help stop the constant thoughts going on in your mind every minute, and to make more room for creativity.

But now the makers of the audios I use, have asked me to help market their latest product as well which is called Meditation Program, and although I haven't tried it myself, I have no doubt about the quality and effectiveness of it if their current products are anything to go by.

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