by Suzanne Lieurance
We’re in the final stretch of June, which means it’s worth pausing to look back before the month closes.
Not to audit yourself. Not to measure how much you did against how much you planned. But to notice what the experience of leaning into visibility — even a little — has actually taught you about your writing and yourself.
Because visibility always teaches something. It just isn’t always what you expected going in.
Maybe you shared a piece you’d been sitting on and discovered it landed better than you feared. Maybe you submitted something and the act of sending it — regardless of what comes back — changed how you felt about the work. Maybe you updated your bio or told someone you’re a writer and noticed how that small declaration shifted something in how you carried yourself for the rest of the day.
Or maybe you found the opposite: that putting your work forward surfaced something uncomfortable. A fear you didn’t know was there. A hesitation that revealed something about how you actually feel about the work right now. That’s valuable too. Discomfort is information.
Visibility has a way of clarifying things that staying hidden keeps murky. When you put your work into the world, even in small ways, you learn what it means to you. You learn whether you’re writing for yourself, for a specific reader, for recognition, or for something harder to name. You learn which pieces you’re proud of and which ones you sent out of discipline rather than confidence.
All of that is useful. All of it makes you a more self-aware writer.
Now Try This
Take a few minutes today to sit with the question: What has this month shown me about my writing life?
Not what you accomplished — what you learned.
Write it down somewhere you’ll find it again.
That reflection is part of the practice, too.
And, by the way, Monday Morning Manifestors meets every week to do exactly this kind of reflection together — looking at what’s working, what’s hard, and what comes next.
Join us at mondaymorningmanifestors.com.
And learn how to become a writer who finishes.
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.
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