by Suzanne Lieurance Okay, so can you guess what the one thing is that devoted writers do that other writers don’t do? It’s probably not what you might think. It’s not waking up early. It’s not writing every single day without exception. It’s not having a perfect writing space or a rigid word count goal….
by Suzanne Lieurance There is no single picture of what a devoted writer looks like. Some devoted writers are up at five in the morning, coffee in hand, words on the page before the rest of the house stirs. Others write in stolen pockets of time — twenty minutes at lunch, thirty minutes after the…
by Suzanne Lieurance Every week is a new invitation. It doesn’t matter what happened last week — how much you wrote or didn’t write, how many times you sat down or walked away. When a new week begins, you get to begin too. That’s not a consolation prize. That’s the practice. Beginning again is not…
by Suzanne Lieurance You can write anywhere now. That’s one of the best things about being a writer today. You’re not tied to a desk, a schedule, or even a computer. You’ve got a full writing studio in your pocket. And yet… that doesn’t mean your phone is the best place to write a book….
by Suzanne Lieurance Writers are told, over and over, to follow their passion. Write what you love. Find the project that sets your soul on fire. Let your excitement carry you to the finish line. This advice is well-meaning. It’s also only useful for the first two weeks of any project. After that, the passion…
by Suzanne Lieurance Ask most writers about their pre-writing rituals and they’ll tell you about routines that make sense: the fresh cup of coffee, the desk cleared of clutter, the timer set for a focused session. All of that is fine. But some of the most powerful rituals devoted writers use have nothing to do…
by Suzanne Lieurance Does this sound like you? You want to be more consistent with your writing. You want to finish what you start. You want to feel like writing is just part of your life… instead of something you keep trying to get back to. So you tell yourself you need to be more…
by Suzanne Lieurance Each month we feature a writing challenge that is the theme for the entire month and all our content is based on that theme. Each monthly theme builds on the previous one, so be sure to look back at each theme for this year, no matter when you are reading this. You…
by Suzanne Lieurance Most writing advice treats sessions as interchangeable. Show up, open the document, write. But writers who finish know something that advice rarely acknowledges: not all writing energy is the same, and what you can do well today depends almost entirely on what you’re bringing to the page. Learning to read your energy…
by Suzanne Lieurance There’s a lot of writing advice about how to feel like a writer. Less about what it looks like when you actually are one — not from the inside, but from the outside. The observable version. The decisions other people notice. Because living like a writer isn’t just an internal shift. It…
by Suzanne Lieurance You know the project. It’s the one that lives in a folder you don’t open. The one you think about when you’re falling asleep. The one you’ve told yourself you’ll get back to — soon, when things settle down, when you feel ready. You already know you’re going to finish it. You…
by Suzanne Lieurance Yikes! Does this sound like you? You were moving. You had momentum. And then something happened — life intervened, the chapter got hard, or you just put the manuscript down for a day that turned into a week that turned into a month. Now you open the file and it feels like…
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