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I’m excited to be a brand new teacher on the meditation app Insight Timer. My first two tracks will guide you to write with more ease, and there are lots more to come, with workshops and courses to follow too!

Guided writing on Insight Timer

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Making writing easier

The summer issue of my Writing Boost newsletter is full of tips and tricks to make writing easier. Don’t miss this one!

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Breakthroughs!

The latest issue of my Writing Boost newsletter is all about creative breakthroughs, AKA the fun, and magical, part of the writing process.

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I’m also celebrating my new coaching program, for writers who want to go deeper.

The latest WRITING BOOSTS!

The April issue of my Writing Boost was all about befriending our inner critics, those little voices in our heads that pipe up to keep us safe, but too often hold us back. Read it here!

May’s Writing Boost is about entertaining! If you want to know how to tell whether what you’re writing is (gasp!) the dreaded deadly dull, and how to write to entertain yourself, read it here!

Say, isn’t it time you subscribe to the Writing Boost so you never miss an issue?

New stories in Taddle Creek

Now you can read my art heist story, “The Collectors,” published in Taddle Creek Number 48.

I also read an excerpt from my witchy entrepreneur story, “Fit to Print,” on the Taddle Creek Podcast.

Let’s all admire this gorgeous story illustration by Matthew Daley, too!

March Writing Boost: COURAGE!

My friends,

The lesson of these past few weeks, as war ravages Ukraine and other parts of the world, is one of the most important: how to be courageous.

I define courage as taking the action, best aligned with your integrity, that you would in the absence of fear.

Read this month’s Writing Boost to find out how to be courageous in your writing. I’ll also tell you about my Giving Pledge for 2022.

And, for a courage boost there’s poetry by Serhiy Zhadan, quoted below!

February Writing Boost: Love your writing

This month’s issue is a romcom meet cute starring you and your next story or novel idea.

Find out how to forge a lasting relationship with your writing and write more courageously by embracing your writing with love!

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Here’s this month’s Courage Booster! All of bell hooks’s essential ingredients for love apply to writing!

bell hooks in conversation with Sharon Salzberg - What Is Love?

January Writing Boost: Create from your future self

What if you could approach writing in an entirely new way? In this month’s issue of my Writing Boost newsletter find out a brand new workaround to move past old patterns and frustration stories to become the writer you want to be!

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This month’s Courage Boost is this gorgeous song by Celeste:

NEW for 2022! I’ve started a new series of story posts on...

NEW for 2022! I’ve started a new series of story posts on Instagram! Follow along at suzannealyssawriting.

Does where you write impact your work?

It was such a pleasure chatting with poet rob mclennan about how living in Ottawa for awhile made a lasting impression and changed the way I write. One thing I always enjoy about it is its pace. It’s a city that enables the noticing of details. Thanks to Chaudiere Books for this thoughtful discussion!

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