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# Laura Aliese Miedema

Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach

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## Posts

- [The Quiet Writing Life Blog { Thoughtful Ways to Resonate }](https://lauraaliese.com/quiet/)
- [Why It Can Be Lonely and Restless as a Writer](https://lauraaliese.com/why-it-can-be-lonely-and-restless-as-a-writer/) - Are your writing relationships feeling depleted, distant, or directionless? Today’s Quiet Writing Life podcast talks about an ancient pattern for healthy relationships just as relevant today.
- [Permission to Slow Down and Be Intentional](https://lauraaliese.com/permission-to-slow-down-and-be-intentional/) - Where can you give yourself permission to slow down and be intentional in your writing day? Listen to this podcast episode to hear two types of daily time “structure” and about “Daily Office” —a way people have been intentional in structuring their time for centuries.
- [Enough is enough](https://lauraaliese.com/enough-is-enough/) - What does enough look like to you, as a writer?
- [A Dangerous Question](https://lauraaliese.com/a-dangerous-question/) - Writing can feel like dangerous work, taking me places I’d rather not see or acknowledge. But I’m a firm believer that the truth sets me free, when I want the truth, move towards the truth, and am vulnerable and responsible to the truth.
- [So Much Time](https://lauraaliese.com/so-much-time/) - It all takes so much time. We feel this, writing, revising, revising again, querying, and waiting on pins and needles for success as rejection slaps us in the face. And yet time is all that we really have...
- [The Power to Choose to be an Artist](https://lauraaliese.com/the-power-to-choose-to-be-an-artist/) - You can choose to be an artist no matter what other people say. No one is forcing you to give up your right to be an artist, to be a curator of your own intelligences. You hold that power, and you can also choose to give it away.
- [Seeing](https://lauraaliese.com/seeing/) - Muddy snowbanks: the grime is patterned if you look close enough.
- [Inner Worlds](https://lauraaliese.com/inner-worlds/) - What an amazing gift each person is born with—a unique landscape inside their souls.
- [To Steep in the Quiet: How Solitude Makes Us Stronger](https://lauraaliese.com/to-steep-in-the-quiet-how-solitude-makes-us-stronger/) - When I can hear my own thoughts and connect with my heart, I’m a better person for it. Kinder, softer, and more peaceful in an increasingly loud world.
- [Like a Dog with a Bone](https://lauraaliese.com/like-a-dog-with-a-bone/) - My dog doesn’t wonder if he’s a good dog. He just lives like a dog, no holds barred, especially when there’s a bone involved. Why do we obsess over if we’re good enough writers? What if we just lived like writers, hearts abandoned to the fact that we breathe through words?
- [On death and writing](https://lauraaliese.com/on-death-and-writing/) - The snow streaked in the night like falling stars around my feet, suddenly lit by the oncoming headlights of a car. I am going to die.
- [Deep in My Bones](https://lauraaliese.com/deep-in-my-bones/) - I feel deep in my bones every reason in the universe to give up writing. The inner critic circles me like a crow in a blackened sky, eyeing my every move. But writing is deep in my bones, too.
- [Burning](https://lauraaliese.com/burning/) - Courage. I don’t have it. But I have two eyes that have seen pain. I see people sinking into the slump of not caring they’re slowly dying, one comfort at a time. Anxiety. Yes, I have that. But I have a heart that burns for a purpose, and that has made all the difference. *** If
- [Ashes](https://lauraaliese.com/ashes/) - "I’ve tried before. I’ve put in the work last year, and it came up ashes on a field of dead pages." But Hope says...
- [This Year: Courage](https://lauraaliese.com/this-year-courage/) - I’m passionate as a fired-up book coach about helping people doing their best work. Cheering them on as they put their hat in the ring, to signal to the world, “I’m doing this thing!” and then I see them blow away the watching world’s expectations, just like I know they could.
- [The Journey of a Lifetime: The Suitcase Contents of a Working Writer](https://lauraaliese.com/the-journey-of-a-lifetime-the-suitcase-contents-of-a-working-writer/) - Travel Packing List for Working Writers (FRAGILE, handle with care)
- [How a Legacy Begins](https://lauraaliese.com/how-a-legacy-begins/) - At the bottom of the Writing Mountain, we can be taken aback by how far we still need to go. Each pinnacle seems unreachable, and new ones appear after the last. But the lowly path unwinds at a slow, steady pace. It does not, cannot, teleport to the top, but takes each step, one ledge
- [Unfolding](https://lauraaliese.com/unfolding/) - Have you ever wanted to look away from your writing, close into a crumple of paper, and throw yourself in the waste basket? I have. But, on my good days, I remember I am not my writing mistakes. I’m not to be thrown away like paper, but unfolded, smoothed out over time, worked with, not against.
- [All who wander are not lost: the recovery of wonder in writing](https://lauraaliese.com/all-who-wander-are-not-lost/) - Writing sometimes feels a lot like wandering: Which way is it again to a two-book deal? Stephen King said left. Jane Friedman said right. How can I finally get up to that Platform? Where are the steps? It can feel like our eyes are fooling us, and we’re not getting anywhere.
- [The Writing Path](https://lauraaliese.com/the-path/) - Writing a novel is a well-worn path. The Greats have walked in the alleyways of chapters, pillared by margins, picking up symbols by the side of the road, turning them over with careful hands. Memoir, nonfiction books, too—these same hills of truth have been hiked by beggars and kings alike. Writing can be climbing a
- [Keep Going: No One Can Make You Stop Writing](https://lauraaliese.com/keep-going/) - You always have the choice to get up again, and no one else can make that choice for you. You have to hoist yourself, your hands pushing off, your legs finding ground. You have to trust that someone will be happy to see you up and at ‘em—even if that only Person is God.

## Pages

- [Do you have the introverted skills to be successful in publishing?](https://lauraaliese.com/) - Laura helps quiet writers resonate through thoughtful connection, not noisy self-promotion. Your deep ideas can get out of your head into hearts of readers.
- [Testimonials](https://lauraaliese.com/testimonials/) - Laura is insightful, responsible and kind. She has helped me massively with my writing and pitching. I can thoroughly recommend her to work with you in these important aspects of our craft. Bobbie Ann Cole, Author, Speaker, and Teacher in Jerusalem, Israel I can't believe how lucky I was to connect with coach Laura Aliese, who worked
- [Find Your Quiet Strengths Quiz](https://lauraaliese.com/quiet-strengths-quiz/) - Click Here for a Free Online Coffee Visit to Talk About Your Quiet Strengths
- [The Quiet Manifesto (launching end of August 2026)](https://lauraaliese.com/quiet-manifesto/) - This is your own quiet declaration of your deepest convictions, how your book will express them subtly, and how you will show up, quietly, to change the world.
- [Free Strategy Session over Coffee with Laura](https://lauraaliese.com/coffee/) - Need to get Laura's advice on something? Have a burning question to discuss about your book? Need a pep talk? Chat with Laura over a coffee in an online meeting for an hour. She'll help you find your next step for the problem you're coming with. (There are limited slots for these free strategy sessions
- [About Laura](https://lauraaliese.com/about/) - I help quiet writers resonate through thoughtful connection, not noisy self-promotion. Get your deep ideas out of your head into the hearts of readers.
- [Coaching](https://lauraaliese.com/pricing-and-processes/) - Table of Contents ServicesFour types of deadlines (also called coaching bookings)Where Do I Start?Ready to step into book coaching? Services Coaching Specials I offer two coaching specials: "Is My Book Idea Fresh and Workable?": A Thorough Concept Test - Assess the viability of your book idea and get clarity moving forward. "Am I Ready to
- [Getting Started](https://lauraaliese.com/getting-started/) - Here are the steps to exploring coaching with me: You can book a free online strategy session over coffee, where we can connect on a burning question you have about your work. You can see firsthand if you like my style of coaching, and I'll help you find your next step for the concern you're
- [Specials](https://lauraaliese.com/specials/) - Special #1: "Is My Book Idea Fresh and Workable?": A Thorough Concept TestSpecial #2: "Am I Ready to Pitch Agents and Publishers?": A Thorough Pitch Package TestHow These Coaching Specials Integrate with Regular Individual Coaching with Laura Special #1: "Is My Book Idea Fresh and Workable?": A Thorough Concept Test Who This Offer is For
- [Creative Writers Cafes](https://lauraaliese.com/creative-writers-cafes/) - Laura is warm and welcoming and makes space for all levels of experience in her cafes. She's knowledgeable, insightful, and hungry to help. You can't help but feel welcome and embraced and ready to do your best. - Naomi MacKinnon, Book Blogger at Consumed by Ink and Cafe Attendee *** Registration closed for Cafes at
- [Home](https://lauraaliese.com/home/)
- [Writers Resources](https://lauraaliese.com/writers-resources/) - Ready to get serious about entering the publishing scene? I can show you how to use these resources properly for entering the marketplace with courage and confidence. Book a free discovery call today by emailing lauraaliese@gmail.com to discuss coaching options. Laura-Aliese-Writers-Resources-for-Focus-and-Publishing-1Download
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## Categories

- [Keep Writing](https://lauraaliese.com/category/keep-writing/)
- [Keep Connecting](https://lauraaliese.com/category/keep-connecting/)
- [Keep Preparing](https://lauraaliese.com/category/keep-preparing/)
- [Keep Going](https://lauraaliese.com/category/keep-going/)
- [The Quiet Writing Life Podcast](https://lauraaliese.com/category/the-quiet-writing-life-podcast/)