Writing Challenge: August 2026
The ALL-NEW Monthly Writing Challenge is here + Announcing the Winner from last month
When a post goes viral, it brings new subscribers for months. Notes are quick burners, you get a viral effect for 1-2 weeks and then silence. But posts? One post can become your growth engine for months!
And if you approach your writing strategically, it can become your money-making machine that brings a predictable income. One that compounds.
This is what I use to grow my Substack to almost 1,000 paid subscribers with a total monthly revenue close to $20k.
It’s also what I use to help you - my paid, VIP members and my coaching clients.
That’s why this Challenge exists.
To help you replicate my methods and grow your revenues.
First, let’s now announce the winner from last month.
WINNER AWARDS
I want to personally congratulate all of the members who took their growth seriously last month and were active:
Kathleen Thorne RN, LMT, Larry C. Brown, Charisse Tyson, Larry Burton, Chris Humphrey, Roy Solheim, Vinayak Ramesh, Charlotte Habegger, Daniela D, Michaela Bosquet Lambert, Adrienne Schutte, Olamide Amosu, Zainab Semiu, Monica Lundstedt, Lawrence Omoregie Jr, Emily Vermillion, Dee, Clayton H, Cameasha, Steph, Real Meal Prep Help, Harvey Woodford, Roy Solheim, Monica Goh, Olamide Amosu, Harvey Woodford
Congrats to all of you! You’re ABSOLUTELY amazing!
Now, to select the winners, I have to see you in the Accountability tracker AND in the comment section of the weekly sharing posts, and since not all of you added yourselves to the tracker, I’m gonna honor that and select ONLY among the ones who did.
Ok, so the winner is….
….drumrolls please.…
Winner from last month Writing Challenge:
→ Dee ←
BIG Congrats to Dee !!! I can’t wait to jump into the session with her and talk about her amazing Substack! Looking forward to it!
The Spotlight Session Award
→ #1 Award is a Spotlight Session to talk about your Substack and more. To give you and your Substack more exposure, I will share this session:
all subscribers
my BiTES atomic newsletter
my other social media accounts
→ Watch all previous spotlight sessions here.
Time to kick off the ALL-NEW WRITING Challenge!
Your Challenge Resources:
[NEW] Use this trick to personalize your posts - it will help you grow faster:
[NEW] Make sure you check my growth SOPs, which I use to get to my first $20k month - these two posts compile all of it:
[NEW] And if you’re still struggling to get high-quality output from AI, here’s my most complex protocol for using AI for writing so that I get 100% human checks on Pangram:
And if you haven’t already, take my new data-driven online writing courses to convert at high rates and get recommended by AI:
The Challenge Rules:
PARTICIPANTS:
The weekly sharing boost posts are for ALL UNPLUGGED MEMBERS - you can all add yourself to the accountability tracker and participate in the sharing posts, but all training materials, AI tools, and AWARDS are reserved for PAID MEMBERS ONLY.
As usual, Paid and V.I.P. members have their private access to the GPTs, and the Data-Driven Online Writing Course, the Data-Driven Copywriting Course and the Data-Driven SEO & AI SEO Course with all templates, cheat sheets, formulas, checklists, data banks, and supporting materials.
What you need to do:
Write and publish at least 1 post per week.
Join the challenge by adding yourself to the Accountability tracker
Make this challenge your daily engagement workflow: share your posts in the weekly thread (you can do that every day until the next post comes on Sunday), read, like and comment on other people’s posts - it helps them, AND YOU grow.
How to do that (faster)?
[NEW] Use this trick to personalize your posts, it will help you grow faster.
[NEW] Use my engagement SOP with this challenge, it will get you more eyeballs.
[NEW] Write a pillar post and use my method to get more visibility - it will bring you consistent new subscribers for months.
Take the ALL-NEW Data-Driven, NLP-infused, Online Writing Course, the Data-Driven Copywriting Course, and the Data-Driven SEO & AI SEO Course to make your writing contagious, AND make sure it sells for you (without selling).
Watch the Positioning, the Product, and the Content Strategies from the QUEST: to make sure your content matches your audience's needs.
[NEW] Create your own custom GPT or Claude skill and use my AI writing protocol to get 100% human checks on Pangram.
Or use my custom GPT or Claude Skill the CREATIVETECH Writer Pro (free for paid members - use the link below) for outlines. I give my GPT one of my notes and ask it to expand it into a 1000-word article. I then edit and post for free. It works.
Make sure you add links to other posts, so that people keep reading (or start buying if they are paywalled - that’s what I did)
Add a compelling headline, one that opens a curiosity gap. Use my custom GPT the TITLE Generator - give it your entire article and it will come up with 10 titles suggestions.
Make sure you have a CTA at the end of your post, selling your product in a non-salesy way. How? Use my brand new custom GPT High Converting CTAs Writer (link below). Just give it the product description and it will generate you 10 non-salesy CTAs that convert. If you don’t have products to sell, become my affiliate and earn 30% from each sale. Apply here for my AI tools and here for the SUBSTACK QUEST (I approve everyone).
Make the weekly boost posts your daily engaging routine - I publish them every Sunday:
Share a quote from your post on Notes (select some shareable sentence & restack quote)
Share a link to it on the Weekly Writing Challenge Sharing post: I will publish one every Sunday - it will arrive in your inbox.
Read, like, comment and restack some of the other posts you like. Make this Challenge your daily engagement routine - it will help YOU and other Unplugged members grow faster.
Track your consistency: add yourself to the Accountability Tracker. I have a Prize for the most active!
The GOAL?
Real CA$H!!
Sales is what I do best, and in this newsletter, I help you do it too, without the fear of failure or alienating our audience. It’s all in the Quest.
WINNERS AWARDS:
Spotlight Session with me to talk about you and your Substack.
Rules for the winners’ selection:
I’ll select one of the most active participants in the Challenge based on the Accountability Tracker and your activity in the sharing posts. Rules:
1. must be in the Accountability tracker and stay active in the weekly sharing posts
2. must have completed the challenge (at least one post a week)
3. you can win the same challenge more than once but in different months
4. you can’t win both Writing and Notes challenges in the same month. If you do, I’ll invite the next most active person for a session
Priority of selecting winners:
1. most active among the VIP members
2. most active among the annual paid members
3. most active among the monthly paid members
Announcement of the winners: start of next Challenge - 2nd day of next month
When do we do the spotlight: during next month upon your availability. We’ll do the session only if you’re willing to. If not, I’ll invite the next most active member until I get a “yes”.
How do we do the spotlight: over Zoom. I ask you questions (we initially agree on the list), and we discuss :). You can prepare slides if you want to (not a must, nobody did so far :D). I’ll do the spotlight sessions monthly after the Challenge finishes.
To give you and your Substack more exposure, I will share the spotlight session:
all subscribers
my BiTES atomic newsletter
my other social media accounts
Ready?
Let’s do this!
Here’s your Challenge pack of resources: