by Suzanne Lieurance Many writers have the talent to succeed. They have ideas. They have notebooks full of story concepts. They have writing books on their shelves and courses on their computers. Yet year after year, they still struggle to finish what they start. Meanwhile, other writers seem to make steady progress. They finish manuscripts,…
by Suzanne Lieurance One of the most common reasons writers don’t submit isn’t that they don’t want to. It’s that they don’t know where to send their work — and the research feels overwhelming before it even begins. The literary market is large and varied, and no writer is expected to know all of it….
by Suzanne Lieurance Some writing is easy to share. The essay about craft, the piece about your neighborhood, the story that borrows only loosely from life. You finish it, you send it out, and the vulnerability is manageable. And then there’s the other kind. The piece that holds something real — a loss, a relationship,…
by Suzanne Lieurance Most writers who want to submit more don’t have a motivation problem. They have a system problem. They wait until a piece feels finished enough, then spend a few scattered hours researching markets, then lose momentum and move on to something else. The submission never goes out. Or it goes out once…
by Suzanne Lieurance If the word “platform” makes you feel tired before you’ve even started, you’re not alone. Platform has become one of the most loaded words in the writing world. It conjures follower counts and posting schedules and the exhausting sense that you need to be everywhere at once, performing your writerly self for…
by Suzanne Lieurance One of the quietest visibility blocks writers face has nothing to do with submitting or publishing. It happens much earlier, in ordinary conversation, when someone asks what you’re working on and you immediately downplay it. “Oh, just a little project.” “Nothing serious yet.” “I’ve been playing around with an idea.” Sound familiar?…
by Suzanne Lieurance June has five Mondays, and we’re making the most of them. There was no Writers’ Book Chat in May — Memorial Day fell on our last Monday of the month, so we gave ourselves the holiday. But June more than makes up for it. With five Mondays on the calendar, we’re fitting…
by Suzanne Lieurance Most writer bios are technically accurate and completely forgettable. They list credentials in the safest possible order, use language that could belong to anyone, and leave the reader with a vague sense of a writer rather than a specific one. If you’ve ever written a bio and then felt vaguely embarrassed reading…
by Suzanne Lieurance Most writers don’t think of themselves as hiding. They think of themselves as waiting — for the right moment, the right draft, the right level of confidence that will finally make it safe to share their work. But waiting and hiding are usually the same thing in different clothes. The Reasons Writers…
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…
by Suzanne Lieurance Something changes after you expand as a writer. Not just in what you produce. But in how you see yourself. The Internal Shift You stop thinking: “I’m trying to write more.” And start realizing: “This is what I do now.” That shift is quiet. But it’s powerful. What Becomes Possible When your…
by Suzanne Lieurance Expanding your writing capacity is one thing. Holding it is another. Many writers grow for a short time, then slowly return to where they started. Not because they failed. But because they didn’t stabilize the new level. Why Writers Slip Back After a period of growth, it’s easy to relax. To take…
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