Taking the 12 Month Writing Challenge

My good friend and writer, Patricia Sills, has set up a new website.

She sent me a link to it and I have to say I'm impressed.

Patricia is doing  my 12 Month Writing Challenge and has set up a blog so that she can do it in public.

I think it's very brave and very smart.

Brave, because not many people would have the courage and smart because publicly announcing you plans can make you more likely to stick to them.

So it will be interesting to see how she gets on.

The second month of the challenge is to set up a website so this is what she did without any prior knowledge of knowing how to go about it.

I wish her all the luck in the world and I hope she manages to stick to the whole 12 months and earns more money than she ever dreamed she would from her writing.

All the best Pat.

Take a visit to her new writing website at http://ritealong.com.

And if you want to, you can join Patricia and start The 12 Month Writing Challenge for yourself.

It's not easy because it will keep you writing, planning and earning money for a whole year.

But I have to say, that although the pace is tough, it's fun.

There is nothing like the satisfaction of continually writing, submitting and publishing and watching your income increase.

When I first started my own writing challenge (which I based the course on) I found it challenging for sure, but the results were more than worth it and the feeling of satisfaction was great.

If you haven't yet tried your own 12 month writing challenge, I can personally thoroughly recommend it.

And at the very least, you'll earn $36,000.

75% Off Writing Market Books Until June 30th

Writers Digest are currently running a 75% discount on all 2014 market books for writers including books for poets, short story writers, song writers, guide to self publishing and more.

There are big discounts on their other books for writers too, but stock is limited.

They also have some new books for writers that they've added to their collections including:

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Just take a minute to have a look and see if there's a book that can help you.

The offer is only open from 19th June 2014 until 30th.

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All Marketers are Liars

I'm currently enjoying reading the latest book I purchased, "All Marketers are Liars" by Seth Godin. ISBN 13: 9781591845331.

And I'll say one thing for it, it certainly is an eye-opener into how successful marketers think and work.

I only received the book last week (paperback) and have been so busy with other things that I'm only 3 chapters into it, but already I'm learning so much, which is important because if you sell anything (including being a writer who sells books) you're a marketer whether you like it or not.

I bought "All Marketers are Liars" from The Book Depository (which is owned by Amazon) and they give great discounts on all their books plus free worldwide shipping. They also display book prices in your own currency.

So if you want to buy a book, don't pay retail price and pay for shipping. Get it straight from The Book Depository. It will be cheaper and won't cost you extra for packaging and posting.

Here is the official description of "All Marketers are Liars" straight from The Book Depository:

Seth Godin's three essential questions for every marketer: "What's your story?" "Will the people who need to hear this story believe it?" "Is it true?"

All marketers tell stories. And if they do it right, we believe them. We believe that wine tastes better in a $20 glass than a $1 glass.

We believe that an $80,000 Porsche is vastly superior to a $36,000 Volkswagen that's virtually the same car.

We believe that $125 sneakers make our feet feel better--and look cooler--than a $25 brand. And believing it makes it true.

As Seth Godin showed in this controversial book, great marketers don't talk about features or even benefits. Instead, they tell a story--a story we "want" to believe, whether it's factual or not.

In a world where most people have an infinite number of choices and no time to make them, every organization is a marketer, and all marketing is about telling stories.

Marketers succeed when they tell us a story that fits our worldview, a story that we intuitively embrace and then share with our friends.

Think of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, or Fiji water, or the iPod.

But beware: If your stories are inauthentic, you cross the line from fib to fraud. Marketers fail when they are selfish and scurrilous, when they abuse the tools of their trade and make the world worse.

That's a lesson learned the hard way by telemarketers, cigarette companies, and sleazy politicians. But for the rest of us, it's time to embrace the power of the story.

As Godin writes, "Stories make it easier to understand the world. Stories are the only way we know to spread an idea. Marketers didn't invent storytelling. They just perfected it."

http://www.bookdepository.com/All-Marketers-are-Liars-Seth-Godin/9781591845331

Goodbye Writer's Block

I've just published my latest ebook.

Goodbye Writer's Block:
How to Be a Creative Genius and Have an Abundance of Ideas Plus the Inspiration and Motivation to Write

It's available as a PDF download.

http://cheritonhousepublishing.com/books/WB.html

It's not a huge book but it's so full of everything you need so that you never get stuck for ideas of what to write about ever again.

Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, this ebook will show you numerous ways to get ideas.

And not just one or two ideas, but so many that you'll never be stuck. Ever.

With this ebook, if you want to write a novel, even if you haven't a clue what you're going to write about, just follow the advice, and before you know it,  you'll have an abundance of ideas.

And it's the same if you want to write non-fiction. Just follow the advice and you'll have an avalanche of ideas of things you can write about.

Getting ideas isn't hard. You just need to know how to start looking and where to get ideas from.

This ebook makes it so easy to find ideas that you'll never suffer from "writer's block" ever again.

In fact, you'll "suffer" from idea overload.

Go to the website to read more.

http://cheritonhousepublishing.com/books/WB.html

Goodbye Writer's Block will spark your creative genius and give the motivation to keep on writing for years.

You don't have to know what you're going to write.  You just have to know that you want to, and let Goodbye Writer's Block do the rest.