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Writing Your Resilience · Aug 13, 2026

Summer Rewind: Crafting Stories that Ignite the Soul with Sue William Silverman

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The podcast is on a break so I can focus on my writing and some much-needed rest. Until it returns on September seventeenth, I’ve curated a summer rewind series of fan favorites. This week’s rewind episode features my conversation with the always brilliant Sue William Silverman. The craft advice she shared around literary masks, using metaphors and sensory details, and her fervent plea to write your story are as timely as ever and worth every listen.

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Are you curious about the similarities between fiction and nonfiction? Have you ever dreamed of writing a novel? Could you see yourself dabbling in the speculative realm—or would you like to know what it is?

Then join me during the week of August 17th for the FREE WorldShift Speculative Fiction Writers Conference! During this weeklong event, you’ll have a chance to learn from over 40 presenters on the craft of fiction writing. If you’re fiction curious, this conference might inspire you to get started. And if you’re team memoir all the way, attending some of these sessions will make you a better memoirist. And if it speaks to you, I’d love it if you attended my session: Protecting the Writer, Supporting the Reader: Trauma-Informed Strategies for Speculative Fiction Writers

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Discover what a writing voice is, the question you should ask BEFORE trying to cultivate yours, and the skills you need to develop to make your work so distinctive, all people need to do is read a few sentences to know it’s you.

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Read the original on lisacooperellison.substack.com

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