The Beginning of 0 Words To 60k

Last night took an L but tonight I bounced back.

As many of you know for the last month and some change I was pushing my Kickstarter for a superhero themed children’s book/experience I created. I had lofty goals of hitting $40k to help create an app, finish the musical soundtrack, create an animated cartoon and ensure that children all around the world would be able to read books featuring diverse characters. I called this the ultimate superhero experience as I wanted to go beyond just books.

Sadly my Kickstarter fell short. Like I’m talking about flat on its face!

I know, I know, rough huh.

I did all that I could as a one man team, from getting publicity for my books, which you can check out here and here, teaming up with amazing partners and reaching out to everyone that would listen to me about my project.

As time drew closer to the final days of my project and I realized I wasn’t going to hit my goal, I felt like I fell into the sunken place.

I went through various emotions.

On one hand I felt a bit of sadness because I failed. At the same time I blamed myself for not presenting the message clearly enough to get people to donate. The next thing I felt was rage that people who supported the idea and thought it was great but did not donate. And the final thing I felt was hope that people wanted these kind of stories, it was just up to me to figure out how to get it to them.

All of these happened around my 26th birthday which was on July 3rd and the campaign ended on July 6th. So I wasn’t in much of a celebrating mode compared to other birthday years.

Once I crawled out the sunken place and got out my feelings, I decided to do what I enjoy doing most, write. I bunkered down and mapped out my superhero universe; I would show you a picture, but I can’t give too much away.

After that, I decided to do something that’s a little bit crazy, okay it’s absolutely crazy. I decided to create a brand new series from scratch within the very same superhero universe I created.

My previous two book series were created for children ages 4–12. Writing those stories presented a challenge within itself as I am limited in both the amount of words I can use and the type of words I can write. This new book series is for young adults and adults and the best part is that it’s still within my superhero world.

So what in the world is 0 words to 60k? Well in short, that’s about how many words I wrote for the novel over the span of a few days. It’s also approximately the length of a young adult novel.

This series is to help writers who are sitting on the sideline contemplating creating their first novel. I want to force you to get into the game and publish that book.

This is a step by step journey that I’m taking by posting twice a week here on Medium as well as on my YouTube channel. I’ll be giving you a peek behind the scenes at the entire process, and in a month you’ll have your first book written and published on Amazon or whatever platform you decide to use.

I’ll be the first to tell you; I don’t know everything. But what I do know is that a lot of people allow that to stop them from telling their story or pursuing their idea. Well no longer. I could have let failure destroy me, but I didn’t. I’m pushing ahead, and together we can achieve greatness and #SlayTheDay.

If you want to join in this process and go from 0 words to 60k then join the private Facebook group and lets get it cracking!

In my next video, I’ll document exactly how I lay out my writing structure to be able to turn books around so fast, and I’ll even give you a look at the first 5,000 words which I knocked out in a few hours.

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