Conversations with Jessica, illustrated
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Tuesday Trivia
_______________________________________________ My alter ego, Jenny Jacobs, is part of an Amazon promotion for Kindle Fire owners. The book with the special price is Second Acts. More here. And more Conversations with Jessica! And don’t forget that tomorrow is Dojo Wisdom for Writers Book Club! ### Dojo Wisdom for Writers, second edition, now available! Catch a…
On what I’m working on
I’m working on a novel in a genre that’s new to me and it’s not going well partly because I don’t know what I’m doing (see “genre that’s new to me”) and partly because Jess is back at school and isn’t here to keep me off Facebook during the workday. Jess: What did you…
On the importance of the moon
I’m singing along with a song on the radio as I am inclined to do no matter how much Jessica asks me not to. “That is a song about the moon,” she says suddenly. She has always had a particular fascination with the moon. I don’t know why. It has always been like an old…
On telling stories
You know, I try to give y’all helpful advice for living your creative life. I carefully craft action steps, things to do to help you in your creative work. And? And I get these gentle notes: “Well, it’s fine. Really. Really. It’s just . . . they’re not Jessica stories.” Do you realize how much…
On Not Being Normal
“I’m not normal,” Jessica says matter-of-factly. “I am not like other children.” We are at Wheatfield’s, having a snack. This is one of her favorite places to ambush me with questions about why her life is the way it is. You’d think I’d get a clue and start saying, No, not Wheatfield’s! But I don’t….
On things you’d think I would know by now
Jessica is opening her Christmas presents. Some of them are things she picked out for herself that I’ve wrapped and put under the tree. She pulls the paper back from a book and asks, perplexed, “Am I supposed to be surprised by this?” She can’t remember what she has picked out and what she hasn’t….