The Morning Nudge

By Suzanne Lieurance

When I sat down to write this introduction, I titled my newly created computer document “The Nudge Forward.” I instantly recognized the accidental appropriateness of the title because that’s exactly what this book is—a guide to help writers of all genres and experience levels nudge their careers forward.
As a writing coach, every weekday morning I send a free email called The Morning Nudge to my subscribers. The Morning Nudge email is simply a short writing tip or a few words of encouragement to writers. I’ve been publishing these daily Nudges since 2006, and many of my subscribers have been suggesting that I turn them into a book, so that’s what I’ve done here.
This book contains 101 of those short tips for successful freelance writing. But there is no particular order to these tips. I suggest you choose one tip daily.
Flip through the book each morning to find a tip that addresses any particular challenge you may be facing with your writing or your writing career. Read the tip slowly to absorb the information, then jot down a few thoughts. Use your Success Journal (turn to the appendix to find out how to start a Success Journal) for more in-depth reflection of any tip you find particularly helpful or meaningful.
Any time you start to feel discouraged about your writing career or you can’t seem to get motivated to get any writing done, open this book and read a few of these 101 tips for inspiration.
You’ll notice that some of these tips are very similar or might even seem to say the same thing. That is by design. As a coach, I find that writers need to hear or read something several times before they actually believe it and start to take action.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Suzanne Lieurance
• Release date: Feb 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9780989556118

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Suzanne Lieurance

Copyright 2013 © Suzanne Lieurance

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For my kind, patient husband, Adrian. Thank you for always believing in me and nudging me to overcome self-limiting thoughts and beliefs. For our sons, Nicholas and Tyler, and our daughter-in-law, Samantha – the three of you continue to amaze me with all the creative and compassionate things you do to make the world a better place.

And for Miko and Daisy, my faithful little four-footed writing buddies for so long. I miss you both every day.

A very special thanks to Lisa Harkrader for the beautiful front cover design and to Wendy Dewar Hughes of Summer Bay Press for your graphic design expertise in turning my nudges into a beautiful book.

And to all my loyal Morning Nudge email subscribers, members of the Working Writer’s Club, and my one-on-one coaching clients, you all inspire and motivate me to get a little work done every day.

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Contents

Foreword

How to Use This Book

101 Writing Tips

1-11

12-21

22-31

32-41

42-51

52-61

62-71

72-81

82-91

92-101

Appendix

About the Author

Additional Resources

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Foreword

When I sat down to write this introduction, I titled my newly created computer document The Nudge Forward. I instantly recognized the accidental appropriateness of the title because that’s exactly what this book is—a guide to help writers of all genres and experience levels nudge their careers forward.

And Suzanne Lieurance is exactly the right person to give that nudge.

I first met Suzanne at a children’s writers’ critique group twenty years ago. We soon found ourselves co-authoring Kidding Around Kansas City, a travel guide for kids. It was the first published book for each of us. Since then, Suzanne has gone on to write. . . well, nearly everything: novels, articles, short stories, nonfiction books, early readers, classroom materials—even a serial romance for a coffee company. She has experienced the highs and lows, blocks and flows of the writing life, and has developed strategies that foster more of the flowing highs and diminish any lows or writer’s blocks.

Suzanne also has what I call the Teaching Gene. She has an innate talent for taking complex information and explaining it in a way anyone can understand, and she has a passion for helping her students use that information to enrich their lives and reach their goals.

Through this book, Suzanne uses her experience and her Teaching Gene to help writers nudge forward in their careers.

—Lisa Harkrader

author of The Adventures of Beanboy, its sequel Cool Beans,

and the William Allen White Award-winning Airball: My Life in Briefs.

August 2013

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How to Use This Book

As a writing coach, every weekday morning I send a free email called The Morning Nudge to my subscribers. The Morning Nudge email is simply a short writing tip or a few words of encouragement to writers. I’ve been publishing these daily Nudges since 2006, and many of my subscribers have been suggesting that I turn them into a book, so that’s what I’ve done here.

This book contains 101 of those short tips for successful freelance writing. But there is no particular order to these tips. I suggest you choose one tip daily.

Flip through the book each morning to find a tip that addresses any particular challenge you may be facing with your writing or your writing career. Read the tip slowly to absorb the information, then jot down a few thoughts. Use your Success Journal (turn to the appendix to find out how to start a Success Journal) for more in-depth reflection of any tip you find particularly helpful or meaningful.

Any time you start to feel discouraged about your writing career or you can’t seem to get motivated to get any writing done, open this book and read a few of these 101 tips for inspiration.

You’ll notice that some of these tips are very similar or might even seem to say the same thing. That is by design. As a coach, I find that writers need to hear or read something several times before they actually believe it and start to take action.

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101 Writing Tips

1

Focus on the Positive

Most people tend to focus on the things in life they don’t want. And guess what?

They keep getting more of the things they don’t want.

Remember – Where your attention goes, you go. So make a real effort to focus on the positive