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 can start manifesting your writing life based on these themes at any time.
Our June Theme
You’ve been writing. Maybe for years. And yet — something keeps your work close. Tucked away. Almost ready. Almost finished. Almost good enough to share.
June is about releasing that almost. This month’s theme is Visibility as a Writer, and it asks one quiet, courageous question: What would change if you let yourself be seen?
Visibility isn’t about going viral. It isn’t about having a platform or a following or a publishing deal. It’s about stepping out from behind the work long enough to say: This is mine. I made this. I’m here.
That step — small as it sounds — is one of the most powerful things a writer can do.
How This Challenge Works
This is not a challenge about producing more. It’s about allowing more — allowing your work to reach the people it’s meant for, allowing yourself to be recognized as the writer you already are.
Each day in June, you’ll take one small, intentional action toward being seen. Not a big, scary leap. A step. A gesture. A choice to stop hiding what deserves to be found.
Visibility, like devotion, is built in quiet moments. A post shared. A submission sent. A conversation started. A piece finished and released instead of tucked away. That’s the practice.
Your June Focus
Before you begin, take a moment to name where you are right now.
Are you someone whose work is mostly private — rarely shared, rarely submitted? Your challenge this month is to start releasing it.
Are you someone who shares occasionally but holds back the work that matters most? Your challenge is to let the real work be seen.
Are you someone who submits and shares regularly but still hesitates to claim the identity out loud? Your challenge is to say it — and mean it.
Knowing your starting point helps you make the most of each week’s focus.
The Daily Visibility Practice (10–15 minutes)
Every day in June, move through these three steps:
- Name What You’re Afraid Of
Before you take your visibility action for the day, pause and ask yourself: What’s the fear underneath this?
You don’t need to eliminate it. Just name it. Fear of judgment. Fear of failure. Fear of being too much — or not enough. Named fears lose some of their grip.
- Do the Visible Thing
Write the post. Send the query. Update the bio. Share the link. Submit the piece.
It doesn’t have to be dramatic. It just has to be done. Each visible act — however small — builds the writer identity that says: I am someone whose work deserves to be seen.
- Note the Evidence
At the end of your day, write one sentence: Today I let myself be seen by __________.
Fill in the blank. A reader. An editor. A friend. An audience of three. Yourself.
Tracking your visibility builds momentum. You start to see yourself as someone who does this — and that changes everything.
The Weekly Visibility Arc
Week 1: Show Up Where You Are
Before you reach for a bigger audience, show up more fully in the spaces you already occupy.
This week, be more present and more intentional in what you share, say, and signal about your writing life. Tell someone you’re working on a project. Post something you’d normally keep to yourself. Let your writing life become a little more visible to the people already around you.
Week 2: Send Something Out
This week, put your work in someone else’s hands.
Submit to a publication. Send a draft to a reader. Pitch an idea. Enter a contest. The specific action matters less than the act itself: releasing your work from your hard drive and into the world.
You cannot be seen if your work stays hidden.
Week 3: Build a Visibility Habit
By week three, visibility can start to feel uncomfortable — or exhausting. That’s normal.
This week, scale back and focus on one sustainable action you could realistically repeat every week, not just this month. A short weekly post. A monthly submission goal. A quarterly pitch habit.
Visibility isn’t a sprint. It’s a practice you keep.
Week 4: Claim the Identity
In the final week of June, your task is to say it out loud — or in writing — without hedging.
I am a writer. I am working on ________. My work is meant to be read.
Look back at the month. Notice what shifted — not just in what you did, but in how you held yourself. Visibility changes the way you carry your writing life.
You stepped forward. You let yourself be seen.
That is not a small thing.
Your Simple Tracking Method
Use a calendar or journal and mark each day with one of these:
- 👁 — I took a visible action today
- ✦ — I pushed through resistance to do it
- ○ — I took an inner step toward being seen (a mindset shift, a fear named, a decision made)
Any mark is a win. You are tracking courage, not perfection.
The Real Goal of This Challenge
By June 30, the real win is not a list of submissions or a follower count.
It’s this: You stopped waiting until you felt ready.
Because visibility doesn’t come after confidence. It’s how confidence is built.
Want the Deeper Work?
This month’s issue of Manifesting Monthly magazine is your companion for this challenge. Inside, we go deeper into:
- Releasing the fear of judgment that keeps your work hidden
- Building small visibility habits that don’t feel overwhelming
- Writing for an audience without losing your voice
- Handling the seasons when being seen feels like too much
- Stepping into recognition as a natural extension of your writing life
If this challenge is the daily practice, the magazine is the identity shift that makes it last.
Take Your Your First Step
Today, don’t overthink it.
Choose one person — just one — and share something about your writing with them.
A project you’re working on. A piece you finished. A goal you’re holding.
You don’t have to share the writing itself. Share that you’re a writer who is doing the work.
Then write: Today I let myself be seen by __________.
You’re not trying to become a visible writer someday.
You are one, today.
Suzanne Lieurance is the author of over 40 published books and a transformational Law of Attraction coach for writers who are ready to stop waiting to feel like the real thing. At Write by the Sea, she guides writers through the identity shift that changes everything — not just the writing, but the whole life built around it. She is the publisher of Manifesting Monthly magazine and the host of Monday Morning Manifestors.
