by Suzanne Lieurance How do you improve your writing productivity? Well, many writers think the answer is to push harder. Write longer. Write faster. Force more words onto the page. But that approach rarely lasts. What Pushing Looks Like Pushing feels like effort. You sit down and try to: • Override resistance • Ignore fatigue…
by Suzanne Lieurance Before you can expand your writing capacity, you need to see it clearly. Many writers skip this step. They try to do more without knowing where they are. What Capacity Looks Like Your current writing capacity shows up in: • How long you naturally write • Where your focus starts to drift…
by Suzanne Lieurance Many writers don’t realize they’ve hit a limit. They just notice that their writing stays the same. Same amount of time. Same output. Same stopping point. And over time, that begins to feel normal. But it isn’t fixed. It’s learned. The Invisible Ceiling Most writers have an unspoken idea of how much…
by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of poetry, fiction and the Modern History Press’s acclaimed HowToDoItFrugally Series of book for writers I fell in love with reliable resources when I became a staff writer for my high school newspaper and realized the acquisition of a deep love for that concept surpassed my original attraction for my high…
by Suzanne Lieurance Last month, you practiced something simple. You returned to the page. Again and again. And if you stayed with it, something shifted. Writing became less of a question and more of a given. Now we build on that. May Writing Challenge Theme: Creative Capacity This month’s May Writing Challenge is about expanding…
by Suzanne Lieurance A month ago, you chose devotion and you might wonder what one month of devotion to your writing can do. Maybe you didn’t even use the word “devotion.” Maybe you just decided to show up more consistently, to take your writing time more seriously, to stop treating your creative life as the…
by Suzanne Lieurance Most writers have a picture in their mind of what their ideal writing life looks like. Maybe it’s mornings at a quiet desk before the house wakes up. Maybe it’s a dedicated writing day each week, completely uninterrupted. Maybe it’s a finished book in hand, or a steady creative practice that feels…
by Suzanne Lieurance You’ve shown up all month. Now it’s time to finish the writing project you’ve been devoted to. April has been a month of devotion — of choosing your writing life on purpose, of showing up even when it was hard, of building a practice that belongs to you. And if you’ve been…
by Suzanne Lieurance If you’re wondering how to avoid writer burnout, the answer might surprise you — it’s not about pushing harder or finding better systems. It’s about giving yourself permission to rest, and understanding that rest is part of the work itself. There’s a pressure in creative life to always be producing. To have…
by Suzanne Lieurance If you’ve ever sat down to write and wondered why it felt so different from the last time, you may have experienced the gap between writing from fear vs. devotion — and learning to tell the difference can change everything about your relationship with your writing. Writing from devotion feels like coming…
by Suzanne Lieurance There are times when life gets in the way of writing — and everything around you seems to conspire against the work you love. The demands are real: a family member who needs you, a job that’s spilling into every hour, a home that won’t stop requiring attention. These aren’t excuses. They’re…
by Suzanne Lieurance Writer’s block is one of those things every writer dreads — and almost every writer misunderstands. You sit down to write. The document is open. The time is yours. And nothing comes. Or worse — something comes, but it feels wrong, and you delete it, and an hour disappears. You call it…
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