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Finding Your Unique Process

The Misfits & Daydreamers Primer Series, part 5

May 20 • Susan Dennard

Surprise! I have a new cover to share with all of you!

Published on The Worlds of Susan Dennard • May 13

Confidence When the Writing is Hard

Or: Pushing through, taking breaks, and building a creative process

May 5 • Susan Dennard

Revisions & Editing

The Misfits & Daydreamers Primer Series, part 4

Apr 20 • Susan Dennard

Scenes, Sentences, and Series 📚

The Misfits & Daydreamers Primer Series, part 3

Apr 6 • Susan Dennard

Recent posts

What is your bottleneck?

Or, where do you actually need to be more "productive"?

Mar 23 • Susan Dennard

Building Characters and Worlds 🌎

The Misfits & Daydreamers Primer Series, part 2

Mar 9 • Susan Dennard

The Great Critique Partner Meet Up

‘Tis time again: time for another critique partner meetup. Also, it’s my birthday!

Feb 25 • Susan Dennard

Following the "Right" Story

The Misfits & Daydreamers Primer Series, part 1

Feb 16 • Susan Dennard

Experiments in Focus

I started 2026 with a plan, and so far, it's going great

Jan 19 • Susan Dennard

Happy New Year, Founding Members!

It is (somehow) that time again!

Jan 12 • Susan Dennard

Eight Things I Loved in 2025

It was a weird year for me and media...

Published on The Worlds of Susan Dennard • Dec 30, 2025

My Top Writing Tools of 2025

For gift ideas or to treat yo'self!

Dec 16, 2025 • Susan Dennard

Goals Achieved for the Fluid Creator

Or: how many goals did I reach in 2025?

Dec 3, 2025 • Susan Dennard

What would I have done differently?

A tale of the Witchlands and twelve years of hindsight

Published on The Worlds of Susan Dennard • Nov 4, 2025

3 Tricks For Easily Jumping Between Projects

In case you're a free-flowing project-hopper like me

Sep 24, 2025 • Susan Dennard

Ask Me Anything #7

No, really: anything!

Sep 12, 2025 • Susan Dennard

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The Executioners Three

The Luminaries Trilogy

The Witchlands Series

The Something Strange & Deadly Series

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Where writers come for publishing, craft, and creative life advice from a NYT bestselling author — because a curious writer is a thriving one

Top posts

The reMarkable 2, a review

Jan 31, 2024 • Susan Dennard

What I Would Do Differently With a Career Do-Over

May 5, 2023 • Susan Dennard

How to Write a 1-Page Synopsis

Aug 9, 2022 • Susan Dennard

When Just Finishing a Draft Isn’t Best for the Story

Feb 3, 2023 • Susan Dennard

Swag, Travel, Social Media, and Writing

Apr 12, 2023 • Susan Dennard

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