March 2023 Monthly Recap

In case you missed these posts from March 2023

Mar 30, 2023

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In case you missed it last month, I’ve started monthly recaps to help everyone keep up with all the content I’m sharing and AMA questions I’m answering!

So scroll on to see if you missed anything! And thanks for reading! 😘

March 2023

Misfits & Daydreamers

Work In Progress: Screechers, Chapter 7

A whistle pierced Sun’s dreams. She peeled her eyelids back, thinking groggily that it was a familiar sound. She bolted upright. It was the typhoon alarm. Kicking off carmine sheets, she scrabbled from bed and to the window. The blue glazed tiles were cold beneath her feet. She yanked back the heavy curtains, though there was nothing to see with the moon behind the cobra’s cape—just leaves flying down the walkway…

2 years ago · 5 likes · Susan Dennard

Rather than link to all the rest of the Screechers chapters, head here to read the whole thing!

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Writer Career Shifts

@Ashley asked: Would love to hear your thoughts on writerly career shifts! Whether that be pre-parenting and post-parenting writing challenges, tackling new genres/age categories/themes, or maybe just adopting new habits and drafting styles, so much goes into the creative life and sometimes it feels like a lot to balance…

2 years ago · 15 likes · 10 comments · Susan Dennard

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Screechers Discussion & Revisions

First off, a huge thank you to those of you who read every chapter! I cannot express to you how much fun—and really, how motivating it has been to see your reactions. In fact, I have completely changed my mind about “starting over from scratch,” and I’m now pondering…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 17 comments · Susan Dennard

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Tackling the Big Rewrites

Hilariously, I wrote + scheduled this post two weeks ago…and then three days later, I started making more enormous edits to Screechers. So it would be remiss not to mention my own Big Rewrites with that book that are currently going on. As I explained a few days ago in this discussion post, I’m planning to share my…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 5 comments · Susan Dennard

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Ask Me Anything #3

2 years ago · 8 likes · 26 comments · Susan Dennard

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Revising Screechers: Introduction

Watch now (15 min) | Here are links mentioned: An Easy Trick for Show vs. Tell This is how I layer in deeper POV Big Rewrites Here is where I talked about why I made The Luminaries present tense Finding Flow Again After Burnout Here’s where I discuss how I find perspective and heal from burnout by finding flow in a different project…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 12 comments · Susan Dennard

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How I Find the Right Story

1. Latest News from the Desk of Sooz: I am back in the swing of travel, having hit up Dallas for NTTBF and then Tucson for their annual book festival. And this weekend, I head to Houston for Teen Book Con! It has been really…rewarding? happy-making? goal-reinforcing? to see people IRL and sign books again…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · Susan Dennard

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Part 1 of Revising Screechers: Finding the Problems

As mentioned in the video here and this discussion post, I am going to share with you all my first edits of Screechers. Obviously, by “first” I mean my first recent edits, given that this book has been rewritten and changed more times than I can count. And within a single week, I rewrote the first 100 pages twice…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 5 comments · Susan Dennard

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Finding your "Fulfillment Metric"

@Asteria asked: Balance: how do you find the line between barely writing and "I'm skipping events to write"? The latter coming from a place of feeling like there's not enough hours in the day to really sink into writing…It's stemming from times in the past where, for example, I've skipped movie nights with the family to write, or been "there" but on my laptop writing. I keep encountering this sort of balance issue at different times. Right now, with my class schedule and work, I'm struggling to write and still have a little social time in the hours between dinner/housework/etc and whenever I sleep. (Maybe I am simply overfilling my days, lol…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 3 comments · Susan Dennard

That is everything I’ve shared this month! And looking ahead, I’ve got some posts coming on:

Procrastination versus burnout
More Screechers revisions and insights into my process
My thoughts and tips for creating your own book swag
Remembering that our writing doesn’t exist inside a vacuum
And more!

I’ll see you again in your inbox soon, dear friend! Thanks for reading and supporting!

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March 2023 Monthly Recap

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