Juiced On Writing

I was recently contacted by Joanna Penn, the author of the weblog, The Creative Penn. She had noticed Juiced on Writing from Stumble Upon, and has since become a twitter friend.

I’d like to give you a quick rundown on what is offered at Joanna’s website and on signup.

The Creative Penn

Joanna provides in her website, numerous resources for the writer, particularly based around marketing, self-publishing and print-on-demand. The website also sports a good range of interviews with published authors towards their own experiences.

There are a lot of articles provided on various publishing topics, several commercial e-books authored or co-authored by Joanna – including one on writing, and various other resources available as you browse through the site.

Joanna is passionate about writing and publishing, and you can see this in the latest blog posts. This week is Read An Ebook Week also, and in order to propagate some more e-book reading, what better way than to suggest you sign up to Joanna’s site to receive her free e-book (details below) also?

First Time Author Workbook

On signing up at The Creative Penn, you receive access to the free 27 page workbook, First Time Author. Although simplistic in nature, this e-book is not simple by any means.

The e-book first takes the wanna-be author through some motivation and productivity factors in Parts 1 and 2. Part 1 provides a series of questions to survey the motivation behind the reader wanting to write. And then as a natural progression, once we’ve worked out why we have a binding need to write, we are lead through some goal planning and into Part 2 on actually deciding what we will write about, and structuring our book.

In Part 3 we are introduced to some general thoughts towards publication, and led into finding further details in another more detailed e-book written by Joanna Penn entitled From Idea to Book. A further five pages introduce other e-books available for the new author, and a list of resources in an appendix.

As a free e-book, leading to the potential purchase of another (or perhaps three others) to build on the information, I found First Time Author quite conductive and informational in itself. Built as a series of survey questions, I found browsing through the questions triggered some more desires within me to get up and write. It was a good reminder of always keeping one finger on the pulse of why I want to be a writer – what motivates me, and what commitments (time and otherwise) I need to offer to make the dream come true. This is something which this small e-book does well in simply providing those questions in a workbook style.

I will also be interested to see when Joanna’s commercial e-books – particularly the one on marketing in the Web 2.0 environment – come out. For the new author considering writing a book, The Creative Penn website and First Time Author e-book are well worth checking out.

LinkMe : The Creative Penn

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