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Susan DeFreitas

Susan DeFreitas

The Goldilocks Principle of Interiority

There are a lot of things in life where either too much or too little won’t work, and when it comes to fiction, interiority is definitely…

Apr 16, 2021

The Goldilocks Principle of Interiority

Apr 16, 2021

Susan DeFreitas

Embracing Vulnerability

This week, I had the pleasure of attending Lisa Cron’s virtual launch for Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and…

Mar 10, 2021

Embracing Vulnerability

Mar 10, 2021

Susan DeFreitas

A Book What?

Tell people you’re a book coach and you’ll get some questions: What is that, exactly? And what’s the difference between book coaching and…

Feb 13, 2021

a coach helping a man do push ups

Feb 13, 2021

Susan DeFreitas

NO CONFLICT BUT IN SCENES

The poet William Carlos Williams said, “No ideas but in things.” It’s a refrain from a poem, and as such, Williams made no particular…

Dec 11, 2020

Two white birds flying above water — it looks like they could be in conflict.

Dec 11, 2020

Susan DeFreitas

What Writers Get Wrong About Plot

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with teen writers through Interlochen Online, the Covid-era version of the Interlochen Center…

Jul 17, 2020

What Writers Get Wrong About Plot

Jul 17, 2020

Susan DeFreitas

Decolonizing Creative Writing: 6 Guidelines for Teachers, Freelance Editors, and Book Coaches…

I don’t have a single BIPOC or gay writer friend who hasn’t experienced trauma in a creative writing setting — and it infuriates me.

Jun 19, 2020

Decolonizing Creative Writing:
6 Guidelines for Teachers, Freelance Editors, and Book Coaches…

Jun 19, 2020

Susan DeFreitas

Backstory: Sometimes the Way Forward Is the Way Back

There’s a point in one my favorite movies from childhood, Labyrinth, where the young heroine, frustrated at her lack of progress through…

Mar 11, 2020

Backstory: Sometimes the Way Forward Is the Way Back

Mar 11, 2020

Susan DeFreitas

Standing Rock, Malheur, and the Long Shadow of Colonialism

Even amid the flurry of efforts to promote my first book, even amid the roar of the election season and its various outrages, Standing Rock…

Oct 31, 2016

Standing Rock, Malheur, and the Long Shadow of Colonialism

Oct 31, 2016

Susan DeFreitas

On Becoming a Debut Novelist

No one could tell me the right way to enter the commercial marketplace because no one knew what the right way was.

Mar 9, 2016

On Becoming a Debut Novelist

Mar 9, 2016

Susan DeFreitas

Susan DeFreitas

Susan DeFreitas is an award-winning author, as well as a freelance editor and book coach specializing in socially engaged fiction. http://bit.ly/2Q5oQiO

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