@Rhett Pennell Well, I can answer for @Joseph Asphahani and myself: Pretty much every waking moment was spent working on SOME facet of the contest. Everything from working on covers, updates, pouring over content, and actual selling.
If nothing else, the contest forces you to get everything in gear pretty fast and really polish up everything that ’surrounds’ the book. Pitch Lines, Synopsis, etc etc...
I’ll be honest, I’m sort of vicariously looking forward to watching the contest from afar this time while I sit back and read all the entries.
@Rhett Pennell it is as @Richard Heinz says. The contest was life, ceaseless, for 45 days straight. I suppose I put in an average of 8 hours a day writing messages, timeline posts, and obsessing over strategies to get the word out (some of which paid off). You just have to blitz. And then try to keep up the pace. Also, and this goes for everyone, set a daily goal and refuse to rest until you achieve it. Mine was five. Yours could be more or less, but what I mean is that the value of having that goal every day was that it was like a sanity waterline. I could justify feeling good about my progress if I reached it, and I had some reason to point at for feeling crappy if I didn’t reach it.
By the way I am just FULL of more great advice. And I’m willing to help anyone who asks. No playing favorites. No pressure. DM me [at] BulletTime000 on twitter
