#086 - Unlock Your Writing Program (June 2023)

Hey, Hit splits family, this is Shelly Hits and I am back. I have taken a break from this podcast and I wanted to hop on here to share with you something we are doing in June 2023. This is going to be a special program called unlock your writing. And initially I had thought about doing it as a separate program charging $97 and it's totally worth it. It's a four week program to help you move forward in what God has called you to do in your writing. And it's going to include accountability and prizes and all sorts of different things to really help you move forward. But I decided to go ahead and include it for free for Christian Book Academy members. So if you're a Christian Book Academy member, you should have received all the information in your email. We also have a special section in our private group called unlock your writing. You can just go in that section and all the details are there. But I wanted to share this here with you as well. And if you've been on the fence and considering joining Christian Book Academy, right now is a great time. You can join now. Join us for this one month program, $39 for the month. And then if you decide you want to stay, we would love to have you, but that's totally up to you. You can cancel at any time. And so I just wanted to share with you a little bit about what this program will be. It's a four week program and it will kick off June 1st. We'll have a kickoff call and it will be for the entire month of June. And we really wanna see what God will do as you show up and allow him to flow through you because it is time to unlock your writing. I recently sent out a survey and overwhelmingly you all told me that you need help finishing your first draft, moving forward in your pro projects for marketing. And so the goal will be for you to write at least 15 minutes six days a week for the four weeks. Or you could write do it in an hour and a half per week in one chunk. And you can use this time to make progress on your first draft, to edit your final draft, to write marketing materials like blog posts, emails, social media posts. But basically you get to choose wherever you're at on our kingdom writers path, this is for you. So I really believe every single one of us can find 15 minutes. No matter how busy you are, no matter what's going on, you can wake up 15 minutes earlier, you can stay up 15 minutes later. And a lot of our members within Christian Book Academy have written books over their lunch Breaks. So what if you devoted 15 minutes of your lunch break to writing? So there's so many options and so many ways that you can do this. But we will have weekly prizes. So if you want to just participate one week in June, feel free. Um, we'll also have bigger prizes for those of you who participate and check in every week. And this is just gonna be a lot of fun because we're gonna be doing it as a community and you're gonna have that accountability and also just motivation with some extra calls, some extra prizes. And how it's gonna work is, first of all, we are going to have some special events. So like I said, we're going to have our kickoff call, and then we'll also have a celebration call at the end of June. And we will also have our normal Christian Book Academy events like the Voxer office hours, where you get to ask me a personal question. So if you're stuck with something in your writing, you can ask me. We'll have our accountability call, our two day virtual writing retreat, and then we are adding something new in June. And this is something I think we will be able to continue to do ongoing. But we're, but we're bringing back our productivity parties. I know that many of our members loved these. It's just one hour. Once a week you come together for some group writing and getting some things done. And again, it's the accountability. It's, you know, using that pomodoro method of, you know, setting aside the time, turning off the distractions. But the cool thing is we have two of our mentors inside Christian Book Academy willing to host these. So every Tuesday, we will have two times for you to hop on a call and get some writing done. So Jen Di Harris is going to be hosting at 11am Eastern and Arabat Joy at 8pm Eastern. And so we have those calls every week. And then we will have different posts in the unlock your writing channel in our private group, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Mondays will be a new breakthrough prayer from CJ and myself to help you move forward. Wednesdays, I will be sharing a writing key. This is a new writing strategy each week that I'll be sharing with you that God can use to help you unlock the flow. And then every Friday we'll have our writing wins post, and that's where you'll share your progress. If you only check in once a week, check in on Fridays, we'll send out an email reminder, but that's where you'll share your progress. And we'll be choosing A winner each week as well as some grand prize winners at the end. But we will also be having a private podcast with just for this. And so I know you are here, you're listening to the hit splits and so I know that you're probably, you probably really enjoy a private podcast. And so we've created a, a specific private podcast. It'll just be for the duration of the challenge. So you'll, you'll get the prayers, the writing keys, the zoom replays. All of that will be added to the podcast and it's again, it's free for Christian Book Academy members. So if you're not a member yet, go to ChristianBookAcademy. And sign up. So if you're joining us, your first step is to pick your project that you will be working on and go into our private group in the Unlock your writing channel and share with us on the post what you will be doing. I shared first and I said, you know, we're helping my dad work on, on his book. I'm sharing his story of his traumatic brain injury and he's staying with us for five weeks this summer. And I felt God leading us to do this with him. He's mentioned many times that he wants to share his story to help others and he's been sharing it in different speaking engagements. He had the opportunity to share a TEDx talk and other things, but the tentative title right now is Bounce Back. Choosing to rise when life knocks you down. And that's because my dad was literally knocked down. He was assaulted. He was knocked down and was in a coma for six weeks and literally began to choose to rise. And it was a miracle really, God working in his life. So we're going to be talking or helping him with his book and also talking about the process that we're going through with him. So it's kind of like a little case study along the way. But I already worked on the outline this week and organized all the content. We have got transcripts from the videos, previous talks, blog post. So we are ready to go with this project. But your first step is to pray and ask God what you will be working on. And so I hope that you'll join us. This is going to be a really fun month and if it goes well, this may be something that we do on a more regular basis. In the Academy we always have our 15 minute writing challenge each month, five days. But this month we're going to be really encouraging you. Let's, let's see some greater momentum. Let's go for it. Let's do it the entire month. And so we will not have the 15 minute writing challenge, but we'll have this program instead. But we will also still have our two day virtual writing retreat, which is amazing. And so come join us. If you are not a member yet, this is your time. Join us@christianbookacademy.com whatever you're working on, whether you're working on writing a book, working on writing your marketing materials, this will help you to have the accountability and motivation to move forward. So we're so excited and cannot wait to kick this off with you on June 1st.