My 14 Day E-book Writing Challenge
Back on January 18th, I launched a 14 day e-book writing challenge on my freelance writing blog. The idea was simple: to encourage people to really get moving with their e-book ideas while being able to support each other along the way.
Interestingly, I’ve seen people say 14 days is far too much time for this challenge, and just today I saw some comments on another blog about it saying that 14 days is too little time to write a quality e-book. What are your thoughts on that?
Personally, I think it’s more than adequate. I wrote my first e-book (albeit short), and had it online ready for sale, within just five hours.
I’m obviously writing an e-book during the challenge (although not the longer one I’ve been slowly working on about pre-launch book publicity). I’m not going to go into too much detail about it other than to say that it’s targeting freelance writers.
Although I’ll be detailing the process a little bit over at All Freelance Writing, I’ll likely be updated here at Jentrepreneur regarding sales and such after the fact. What I know for now is that I’m not going with a traditionally long-form e-book sales letter, I’m using e-junkie as my payment processor / delivery service, and I’ll be setting up an affiliate program (my first, so that’s bound to be an experience).
Wish me luck, and if you have any tips along the way (especially the post-publishing area or dealing with affiliate marketing), feel free to let me know.
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By Anne Moss on Feb 4, 2008 | Reply
I think it would be too short for me. What I like about ebooks is the ability to add visuals and examples to really offer an example of what I have written. And weaving it in amongst the regular work and the kid and family balance can make it difficult. Usually, a really short ebook is called a “report”. I know your goal is to inspire people to give it a try and choosing a short deadline might be more likely to inspire that to happen.