by Susan Lovett | Mar 3, 2026 | Writing |
Have you ever had someone launch into a story that made you throw your hands up and say, “Wait, when and where did this happen?” or “Who was involved?” It’s not because the story itself had no value. It’s because it wasn’t grounded. You were lost in time, space, and...
by Susan Lovett | Feb 24, 2026 | Blog, Story, Writing |
Story isn’t just what we write. It’s how we think. It infuses every type of writing, outside of technical, most academic, government, and instructional writing. But even those benefit from narrative intelligence because it informs how our brains process information....
by Susan Lovett | Nov 18, 2025 | Writing |
Stories are great and powerful, but only when aimed at the right audience. You wouldn’t want to tell the story of your worst date ever to a room full of kindergartners, nor would you want to share your childhood dream to a group of attorneys. Who you are talking to...
by Susan Lovett | Nov 11, 2025 | Writing |
We all start by modeling others. We grab their templates, their formulas, their prompts. We swipe their emails and sales pages as great samples to follow. We borrow their voice to make ours sound more credible. But over time, we forget how to use our most powerful...
by Susan Lovett | Sep 9, 2025 | Writing |
I’ve always written better when crunching a deadline. Feeling the pressure of the clock ticking away, knowing someone was waiting on me to deliver—an editor, a client, a studio. Knowing they needed my part before they could move forward. I always loved that. Writing...
by Susan Lovett | Aug 19, 2025 | Writing |
In 1940, engineers in Washington state built a bridge from Takoma to the Kitsap Peninsula. It was the third-largest suspension bridge in the world, at the time. Unfortunately, it only lasted four months. The construction workers who built the bridge, nicknamed her...
by Susan Lovett | Aug 12, 2025 | Writing |
The timer dings. You open the oven. And there it is—the soufflé you lovingly crafted and dreamt of, golden on top and puffed to perfection…until the moment it sinks before your eyes. You watch helplessly as it folds in on itself, all that effort deflating into...
by Susan Lovett | Jun 30, 2025 | Writing |
In my last blog defending em dashes from AI, I promised another blog on ways AI can ruin writing. Again, I will say that I do not hate AI. I use it. Mostly for research, summarizing things I’ve written, outlining, and for feedback from custom GPTs designed for that....
by Susan Lovett | Jun 17, 2025 | Writing |
Back when I was the Director of Communications for a national nonprofit, my colleagues would often call me the em Dash Queen. Not only did I love that little piece of punctuation, but I’d get on everyone about the proper usage for it. It’s a great bit of grammar that...
by Susan Lovett | Jun 10, 2025 | Writing |
There’s a trend that’s been happening over the past decade that surprised many—vinyl record sales shot up. They outpaced CD sales in 2020 and keep selling. People dumped CDs to return to records or pick them up for the first time (Gen Z is the biggest buyer of vinyl)....
by Susan Lovett | Jun 5, 2025 | Writing |
We’ve all been there. Staring at a blinking cursor at the top of a blank screen with no idea how to fill the page. It happens to everyone—even professional writers. Some call this Writer’s Block, but that’s not a phrase I use. It implies there’s no remedy or recourse....
by Susan Lovett | Apr 29, 2025 | Writing |
Great writing doesn’t just say something—it speaks. In Part 1, we took a look at structure and rhythm. Now, let’s tune the instrument and dig into sounds, words, and how they feel when you speak them. If you’re writing for cadence and flow, these tools can act...
