“I’m gonna finish my novel! And this time I mean it!”
How many times have you made this declaration?
Ten times? Twenty? Thirty? Fifty? A hundred? Or you just flat out lost count?
Each time you say it, you really truly do mean it. Cross your heart and hope to… Well, you know.
And you DO start. In fact you may even make a GOOD start. A GREAT start. You’re so excited and revved up. It’s euphoric. You feel like you could ride on this writing high forever.
But then… stuff happens. Life happens.
And the novel-writing stops. Again.
Next step goes something like this:
You get angry at YOU
You get angry at circumstances
You get angry at people who pull at you – those who need and demand your precious time.
OR
A load of guilt comes down on your head – heavy. Now you’re calling yourself names like:
- Quitter
- Loser
- No-talent
- Useless
- Worthless
OR
The shame comes. The embarrassment. Remember all those people you told about writing your novel? Now they keep asking…
“How’s the novel coming? Huh?”
“Hey, weren’t you writing a, uh – oh, you know – a novel or
something?”
“A while back you told me you were trying a write a novel. That thing finished yet? No? Well, it’s been over a year… What’s the holdup?”
Hello fellow writer!
My name is Norma Jean Lutz and I’ve been working with authors, writers, and novelists for over thirty years. That’s in addition to my own writing – having had more than 50 book titles of my own published. I know what it’s like to struggle against all odds to get those words on paper and get them out there to the reading public.
My writing career began in shorter works which resulted in hundreds of magazine articles (and not a few short stories) published under my name throughout the years.
Additionally, I’ve ghosted books for scores of clients, all of whom raved about the results. I enjoy helping others fulfill their dreams of getting their stories told. As a professional ghostwriter, I’ve worked with clients of all ages, backgrounds and temperaments. I’ve created books from taped interviews, half-completed manuscripts, one-on-one interviews, and even shoeboxes full of notes!
I quickly discovered that second to writing I enjoyed teaching. Early on, I offered my courses through the Oral Roberts University Continuing Education department, and soon I was speaking at writers conferences all across the nation.
For nine years I served as an instructor for an international correspondence writing school. (I had graduated from the same school several years earlier.) The years I taught for this school accounted for some of my greatest growth as a writer.
Woven into all of this teaching and writing for other people, was my ongoing quest to write my own novels and have them published. What a challenge!
I’m no different than you. I know what it feels like to desperately contend for a few hours of time in order to get my novel completed. Oh how easy it would have been to just throw in the towel and quit. How easy it would have been to reconcile myself to staying with writing shorter pieces. Or to stick with ghostwriting. After all, when writing for someone else at least I was guaranteed a paycheck. Not so when writing novels.
It is because I know and understand this pain and frustration that I set out to create a support program for novelists. That is precisely why I created the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge.
I’ve seen many of the novel-writing courses being offered on the Internet these days, and many of them are good. Some are excellent. Others just make me roll my eyes!
I kept thinking there needed to be something more. There needed to be a safe-place where tender young novelists (meaning young in experience not in age) can receive the care and nurture that they need to grow and thrive. That’s when I began to design and create the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge.
Not Your Typical Novel-Writing Course
The Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge is not your typical novel-writing course. It does not begin with the plotting process. This course begins with YOU. It begins by helping you to search deep within yourself to see what makes you tick!
A novelist must know self in order to not only write well, but to continue moving forward and not crash land every other day. Or week. Or month.
The Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge is designed to give you encouragement and upward strokes and help keep you on the straight and narrow while working on your novel.
What is Included in the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge?
Every Challenger who enrolls in this six-month program will receive:
Challenger Course Materials 2x a month
Two times a month you will receive the basic course materials. These course materials are filled to the brim with practical instruction to guide you along the often precarious path toward novel completion. A month is too long to go between helpings of encouragement – that’s why materials will come your way twice a month.
Challenger Workbooks 2x month
As with the course materials, you will receive two workbooks a month. The workbooks are filled with challenging questions designed make you to dig deep and learn what makes you tick. (The more you know about yourself, the better novelist you will be.)
Challenger Podcasts 2x month
Everyone differs in their learning styles. Some like to learn while listening. For that reason, I will be including a personalize podcast which you will receive twice a month.
Be A Novelist Writer’s Workshop
Each month you will receive one of the Be A Novelist Writer’s Workshops as added bonus materials to further assist you in honing your writing skills.
Manuscript Critique
After being in the Challenge program for sixty days or longer, you will be qualified to submit the first thirty (30) pages of a novel-in-progress. This manuscript excerpt will receive a professional personal critique.
(NOTE: restrictions do apply as I do not agree to read any and all types or genres of novels.)
Emails 1x week
Writers need upward strokes and words of encouragement. Weekly emails send directly to your in box will do exactly that. Words of inspiration, encouragement and instruction will give you a needed boost at the very moment you need it the most.
Other Services
As the course grows and develops other additional perks will be added for qualifying members.
Today is Your Day!
Your decision to become a Challenger in the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge will be a red-letter day in your life.
Write down today’s date. Mark it on your calendar. You’ll look back on this day as the day when your actions set you on the direct path toward what you’ve always dreamed of – and that is the completion of your novel!
But first a word of caution: The Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge is not for everyone.
I cannot and will not guarantee that this challenge is for every up-and-coming, aspiring novelist. In the world of writing novels there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all.
Who then should NOT subscribe to the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge?
- If you are looking for a magic formula that will give you all the answers as to how to write your novel, this is not the course for you.
- If you are looking for guaranteed, instantaneous success, this is not the course for you. Every novelist – novice and veteran – goes through an ongoing learning process. Sometimes the way can be rocky. Rarely will success be instantaneous.
- If all you know about novelists is what you see on the Amazon and New York Times bestseller list, you may be disappointed. This course is probably not for you.
- The publishing industry is undergoing more changes today than it has since the Gutenberg printing press was invented. New markets, and new ways of getting published, are now available. If you’re totally adverse to the new innovations (such as e-readers) you don’t want to enroll in the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge.
Those who succeed in this business are those who are passionate about novel writing and are passionate about learning the craft of writing. If that does not describe you, this is not the course for you.
The Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge is for those who want to write. Those who love the idea of sitting at the keyboard hammering out page after page of plotlines. Those who love coming up with powerful story ideas and then discovering where that novel should be placed so as many readers as possible can enjoy it.
If that describes you, and you believe this course is for you, here’s the best part.
The Risk Is All On Me!
Once you enroll in the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge, no matter where you are in the course, if you feel you are not receiving the valuable help and information that you expected, then the door is wide open. You can leave at that very moment. Send me an emergency email and the monthly subscription will cease right then.
I want this to be a safe, stress-free place for you to learn and grow.
I understand and relate to your dreams. I know how the thoughts are running through your head, and sometimes keeping you awake at night – characters talking with one another, snippets of scenes, plotting ideas that you long to get out of you and onto paper (or a computer). I know because I live that every day.
I’ve lived with the realities of rejection, when the rejection slips seemed to come at me faster than the manuscripts I was sending out. I’ve lived with the careless (and even rude) remarks of those who ridiculed my dreams.
As I look back through the years, I remember the points where it would have been much less painful to just give up and quit. I’m so thankful I did not yield to that temptation!
Let me help YOU not to give up! Let the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge be your guide through the novel-writing maze.
I Understand and Relate to Your Dreams
Journalism students pay thousands of dollars to take courses in writing. Many will pay tens of thousands of dollars to receive their degree in writing or journalism. But in my experience, few of them ever actually end up as published novelists. And few ever receive close personalized attention from a published author.
Writer’s workshops and writer’s conferences can cost hundreds of dollars (plus travel expenses) and yet they’re over and done in a few days and you’re on your own again.
The Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge allows you to be under the instruction of a professional author, editor, novel critique consultant, and writing instructor for six full months.
Think of it. For six full months you will be under the tutelage of someone who has been where you are and who cares about your success.
Following your graduation from the challenge program, you will then belong to a family of like-minded grads in the Be A Novelist writing community.
No Need to Shell Out Thousands of Dollars!
So, Norma Jean, just exactly how much does the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge cost?
The truth is, this course does NOT cost! It is a wise investment in your future! In your destiny! In your dreams and vision!
It definitely is not priced in the thousands — I purposely set the price to be doable for anyone who has their heart set on getting to work and seeing that novel through to completion!
Special New Year’s Offer Good Through January 18, 2014
Monthly Subscription
Only 99 cents upon subscribing
and $59.95 a month for five months after
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Once you enroll in the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge, no matter where you are in the course, if you feel you are not receiving the valuable help and information that you expected, then the door is wide open. You can leave at that very moment. Send me an emergency email [normajean@beanovelist.com] and the monthly subscription will cease right then.
Wait a Minute! Don’t go just yet!
“Yes, Norma Jean, I can see the value of the Finish-My-Novel Challenge program. However, I’m not ready to enroll today. In the future perhaps, but not today.
BUT… I still want to be a part of the Be A Novelist family to receive updates, writing/publishing industry news, encouragement, and novel-writing instruction. Please keep me in the loop!”
If this describes you, just click on the sign-up note below and you will be included in our Be A Novelist update mail list. Remember that if at any time you become dissatisfied with the instruction and information sent to you, you can easily and quickly unsubscribe.
The representation of this product has been presented as accurately as humanly possible. Keep in mind that every person is unique in their personality, temperament and talents. Each one’s success will depend upon that person’s drive and motivation. In no way does the Six-Month, Finish-My-Novel Challenge guarantee that you will become published.
email: normajean@beanovelist.com
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