#DoTheThing: Because comfort zones are boring

by Dona Sarkar

Everyone’s got that thing. Yes, even you. You know what I’m talking about. Your secret dream or idea. You haven’t yet started to make it a reality…but you can’t stop thinking about it. Why haven’t you started yet? Any of these sound familiar? I don’t have time… It’s not well thought out… I don’t know how to start… I have no one to talk to about it… People will think it’s stupid… It’s too “big” for me to take on right now… It’s too late for me…. Sound like that voice in your head? That voice is a villain. You as the hero of this story are going to defeat that villain. And you’re going to do so in a way that’s been tested with our #DoTheThing community, people who were exactly in your shoes just a few months ago. In this hands-on workbook, you will lead yourself through a set of exercises inspired by classic fiction writing techniques. By the end of the book, you will have completed a write-in Hero's Journey where you will explore your ordinary world, discover the call of adventure, confront the villain and get out of your comfort zone. You will be left with an invitation to join our online (and sometimes in-person!) #DoTheThing community as well as a clear plan for how you're going to start to make your secret dream happen in the next three months. You've waited long enough. You owe this to yourself. Remember, if magic were going to happen in your comfort zone, it probably would have happened by now. Let's go make that magic happen and #DoTheThing – together.

106 pages, Paperback

Published December 8, 2017

About the author

Dona is definitely supposed to be writing her overdue novel right now. Her agent is constantly amazed by the amount of happy hours, reading new authors, browsing Pinterest and pretty much every other activity on the planet Dona can conjure up when she has a writing deadline.

Dona is the published author of three novels HOW TO SALSA IN A SARI, SHRINK TO FIT and HAUTE DATE all from Harper Collins' Kimani Tru line as well as YOU HAD ME AT 'HELLO, WORLD' from Quill and Pen Publishing.

In her spare time, Dona makes holograms at Microsoft, celebrates diversity in STEM fields as a fashion blogger at http://fibseq.style and is an aspiring fashion designer.

She lives in Seattle with her really patient husband and a very bossy grey tabby named Ash.