If you’re pondering whether to join me for a writing workshop on Saturday in Eugene, here are two things to consider: one alarming, the other magical.
Because self-publishing is so easy now and because AI makes faking it even easier, the world is flooded every year with new books. In 2025, Publishers Weekly reported 4.2 million books were published. Twenty years ago, the total was 282,500. That’s a 1,387 percent increase. In that time, the US population increased by just 15 percent.
What can a writer hope to do, faced with that kind of competition?
We do what we’ve always done. We write anyway.
Here’s the magical part. Only you can write the stories that are in you. To do that, you need three practices that evolve over a lifetime of writing. You need to know yourself. You need to know what excites your deep curiosity and makes you want to grab a pen. You need to know language.
On Saturday we’ll play with three techniques that will build your noticing skills across those areas. Why? Because in a world filled with fakes, readers need the story that only you can write.
Use the link below to register.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 
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