Find Success Writing

Colleen M. Story has been writing professionally for over 20 years. She has published both fiction and nonfiction, with her nonfiction focusing on helping other writers.

Her previous book, Writer Get Noticed!, was a gold-medal winner in the 2019 Readers Favorite Book Awards for writing and publishing, and a 1st-place winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards.

Credentials established. Let’s get into the book: Your Writing Matters.

Big Question Answered

Do I want to be a writer? Is it worth continuing down this path as a writer or should I be doing something else?

About the book

The book is divided into three parts

Why Writer’s Doubt Themselves
The Many Benefits of Writing
Make the Big Decision

So, the first part helps you understand the obvious and not so obvious messaging, thoughts, and fears around writing. Then the next section helps you understand the benefits. Colleen Story says there are 6 major benefits. Once you understand your drive to write, the doubts you are dealing with and the benefits writing can bring, the last section helps you make that big decision. Do you write, or move on?

Features and Benefits

She gets you through big questions to your own decisions. She gives you the information you need, sites studies to back up her assertions, and adds her story when relevant. And most chapters have a diagnostic quiz at the end, an exercise, or journal writing activity as well. These features help readers integrate the ideas into their own writing practice and life.

My General Impression

Your Writing Matters is a well-structured book with a specific audience in mind and leads that audience through the questions they have to find answers within themselves through the possibilities presented both in content and in the quizzes and exercises throughout the book.

Who Should Read Your Writing Matters?

If you are a confident and successful writer, whatever success means to you, then this book won’t be on your reading list. If you are starting out and are unsure whether you should dive into a writing career, this book will help you understand what to expect. Or if you have been writing and feel lost or unfulfilled or if you buy into the messaging you are getting from friends, family, or society at large and feel like a failure because you aren’t meeting the expectations of others, then this book will be your best friend.

How Can It Help Authors?

It can help you either get out of the industry or commit, rather than always having one foot out the door. Success doesn’t come to writers who do not commit. And when I am talking about success, I am not talking about fame and fortune. I am talking about the success that Your Writing Matters talks about that goes far beyond those external remedies.

Do I recommend it?

Yes, if you are doubting yourself or your path as a writer, this book will help you clear up those doubts.
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