Skip to content

Passionate Writer Coaching

Gives ADHD writers joy and confidence
Menu
  • Home
  • Services
    • Writer coaching
      • ADD/ADHD writing coach
        • Academic coaching
        • Dissertation coaching
      • ADHD writer coaching group
      • Writers’ Room for ADHD accountability
    • Editing
      • Manuscript assessment
      • Substantive/ content editing
        • Academic editor
        • Book editing
      • Developmental editing
    • Book publishing coach
    • Book indexing
    • Ghostwriting
  • About me
    • Testimonials
    • Portfolio
  • Blog
    • Writer coaching insights
    • ADHD writing support
    • Editing help
    • Book proposals
    • Stories from the inbox
  • Free tools
    • ADHD writing tools
    • Free Chapter’s Guidebook
    • Write a book proposal
    • Dream big freebie
  • Contact me
    • Referral program
  • Price list
  • Schedule an appointment
  • Home
  • Services
    • Writer coaching
      • ADD/ADHD writing coach
        • Academic coaching
        • Dissertation coaching
      • ADHD writer coaching group
      • Writers’ Room for ADHD accountability
    • Editing
      • Manuscript assessment
      • Substantive/ content editing
        • Academic editor
        • Book editing
      • Developmental editing
    • Book publishing coach
    • Book indexing
    • Ghostwriting
  • About me
    • Testimonials
    • Portfolio
  • Blog
    • Writer coaching insights
    • ADHD writing support
    • Editing help
    • Book proposals
    • Stories from the inbox
  • Free tools
    • ADHD writing tools
    • Free Chapter’s Guidebook
    • Write a book proposal
    • Dream big freebie
  • Contact me
    • Referral program
  • Price list
  • Schedule an appointment
Read more about the article The main ADHD motivation mistake that leads to burnout
ADHD writing support

The main ADHD motivation mistake that leads to burnout

You grew up with an ADHD brain in a neurotypical world – whether you knew it at the time or not. Nine out of ten times, this meant constant criticism: for being late, having messy handwriting, and making "stupid mistakes." If everyone else could do it, why couldn't you? You…

0 Comments
November 11, 2025
Read more about the article You’re not lazy! Here’s a plan that won’t fail you as an ADHD writer
ADHD writing support

You’re not lazy! Here’s a plan that won’t fail you as an ADHD writer

You're a talented writer with a brilliant idea for a project, but when you sit down to work on it, you feel a complete sense of paralysis. Your mind goes blank. You're completely overwhelmed and anxious because you don't know where to start. It feels like you're trying to write…

0 Comments
September 11, 2025
Read more about the article Stop writing alone: Why community is your key to productivity
ADHD writing support

Stop writing alone: Why community is your key to productivity

Does this sound familiar? "I haven't written in months, because everything else seemed more important. How am I ever going to get this done? I keep messing up like this. If I just tried harder and had more discipline, this wouldn't be a problem. Why can't I just be DIFFERENT?"…

0 Comments
August 28, 2025
Read more about the article How the “shitty first draft” can silence your ADHD perfectionism
ADHD writing support

How the “shitty first draft” can silence your ADHD perfectionism

You know the thing about ADHD writers? We always go for 300% when 70% would be enough. And that would be fine, if the 300% version ever got finished, and got finished on time!Instead, we end up endlessly throwing out our drafts and starting over, or feeling so embarassed by…

0 Comments
August 14, 2025
Read more about the article Why it’s so hard to feel like a real writer with ADHD
ADHD writing support

Why it’s so hard to feel like a real writer with ADHD

Let me guess: you’re not really a writer? As an ADHD writing coach, I hear this all the time from the hundreds of ADHD writers I’ve worked with. “I’m not really a writer, I just dabble in writing in my free time.” “I’m not really a writer, I’m just a…

0 Comments
July 30, 2025
Read more about the article Is it better to self publish or get a publisher? (+ Next steps!)
Book proposals

Is it better to self publish or get a publisher? (+ Next steps!)

You've poured your heart out into your manuscript, and now you're standing at a crossroads. Or maybe you only have an idea for a book and now you don't know what to do. What should you do? Is it better to self publish or get a publisher? The publishing world…

0 Comments
June 26, 2025
Read more about the article ADHD writing motivation without discipline (You don’t need to try harder!)
ADHD writing support

ADHD writing motivation without discipline (You don’t need to try harder!)

Do you get those days too? You think back over the past day, week or month and realize you've been slacking off. But no longer! So you make a decision: from now on, you're going to be disciplined. No more Mx Nice Person, it's time to really put the thumbscrews…

0 Comments
June 13, 2025
Read more about the article 15 ADHD writing experiments for when you’re stuck
ADHD writing support

15 ADHD writing experiments for when you’re stuck

Many ADHD writers I work with as an ADHD writing coach struggle with what I call a “toxic relationship” with writing. Whenever they even think about writing, they feel dread, shame, guilt, avoidance… And a host of other negative feelings. Sometimes, when they get stuck, they can get themselves to…

0 Comments
May 28, 2025
Read more about the article Task management for ADHD: A practical guide (+Freebie)
ADHD writing support

Task management for ADHD: A practical guide (+Freebie)

For most ADHDers, there's nothing more essential, nor more baffling, than effective task management. Many of us constantly walk around with a feeling that we haven't done enough, or there must be something we're forgetting, or that that is simply Too. Much. To do! So if task management for ADHD…

0 Comments
April 4, 2025
Read more about the article How to Create a Successful Writing Routine with ADHD
ADHD writing support

How to Create a Successful Writing Routine with ADHD

In today's world, it's hard to get through a day without writing anything – an email, a social media post, a quick text to your friend, or a blog post. And then, there's the longer texts: people will tell you it's important to write a book if you're a business…

2 Comments
March 7, 2025
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 8
  • Go to the next page
Susanne Schotanus of Passionate Writer Coaching
  • instagram
  • pinterest
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • fiverr
  • etsy
  • rss
-

About Me

My name is Susanne and ever since I taught myself to read at age 4 I have had a passion for the written word. Over the last five years, I have developed a set of systems to help myself and others be productive and make work of our writing passion. Whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, I’m here to help! Check out the about me page to read more.

Testimonials

Clear, Concise and Detailed

She captures the nuances of the writing, she suggests changes that keep the tone and voice intact, and she manages to find all the little details that seem to slip past other editors.

Teresa Cutler-Broyles
InkWell International, TLC-Travels
Editing
Blogpost topics
academic ADD ADHD agent author book book coaching book contract book deal book details book proposal coaching editing fiction getting published group impostor syndrome joy market memoir mindset motivation neurodivergent neurodiverse neurodiversion new writers nonfiction obstacles Passionate Writer Coaching planning productivity proposal publication publisher stories from the inbox structure stuck summary time management writer writer's block Writer-self writing writing routine your writer-self