How I Failed My Way to 6 Figures by Learning to Write to Market

In this lesson, I'll show you how I became an overnight success … after five years of bumbling mistakes. You’ll learn the secrets, which are mostly comprised of what not to do, as I detail my missteps and failures up the slippery ladder of success from a three figures to a six figures author.

STUDY GUIDES

Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes: https://amzn.to/3TCEaS8

How to Write a Mystery by Lee Child: https://amzn.to/3txbYFv

How to Write a Damn Good Thriller by James N Frey: https://amzn.to/3UAQiUS

The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne: https://amzn.to/3hLUnaj

The Trope Thesaurus by Jennifer Hilt: https://amzn.to/3hJqTdg

TAPPING THE APPS

K-lytics Reports: https://k-lytics.com/dap/a/?a=3456

Amazon Top 100: https://amzn.to/3hJQfrn

Barnes and Nobles Top 100: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/bestsellers/_/N-2uwh

Apple Top 100: https://books.apple.com/us/charts

Google Play Top 100: https://play.google.com/store/books

Kobo Top 100: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebooks/trendingnow

WRITING PRODUCTIVITY

Oh Write app: https://ohwrite.co/

4 The Words: https://4thewords.com/ REFERRAL CODE: MWUCJ21563

Bullet Journals: https://amzn.to/3GhxOnY

Pomodoro Timer: https://amzn.to/3TGjWGS

Sarra Cannon’s Heartbreathings Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/heartbreathings

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MAKE YOUR OWN S.M.A.R.T. GOAL.

SPECIFIC

I want to make a full time living as an author is not specific!!!!!

I want to make $2500 each month from book royalties is specific.

I want to cover my car payment each month with my royalties is good, but put in the number.

I want to sell 100 print books each month.

I want to find 20 new readers each week.

MEASUREABLE

What will it take to hit that goal?

If I want to make $2500 each month from my book royalties, then I need to make $83, which is selling about 30 ebooks per day.

If my car payment is $300 each month, then I need to make $10 per day or sell 3-4 books each day.

You can focus on daily or weekly breakdowns, but I think you see where I'm going.

ATTAINABLE

With an attainable goal, you want it to be something within your reach. So, making 5 figures per month with your first book -while it's not impossible- it would be difficult. Make sure the goal you're writing down is something just beyond your reach, but not on Mars.

RELEVANT

Be sure to record why you want to hit this goal. That's why I recommend you make it personal to you. I needed to feed my family with that $2500. Why do you want to make the money or increase your readership?

TIME BOUND

I like having yearly, quarterly, monthly and daily goals. I start with the year then break it down until I see what I need to do each day.