Jen's Writing Journey

I’m going to take the rest of the week off for the holiday.

I wish all of you in the U.S. a lovely holiday surrounded by those you love.

Those of you in other countries, I wish you a quiet time on the Internet as we in the U.S. gorge ourselves on turkey and then fall into a food coma.

And those of you who are furiously finishing your 50K words for NaNoWriMo or are working on other writing projects, good luck.

See you next Tuesday!

• Book Review: On Writing by Stephen King I feel a little like I'm cheating because I discussed Stephen King's On Writing before, but I hadn't finished it then. King's book is a combination memoir and writing guide. At first it seemed odd to combine these two types of books. From a financial standpoint, two books means......
• Book Review: Writer Mama by Christina Katz Buy this book. It doesn't matter if you're a guy or a girl, a parent or a pet owner. Christina Katz leads you step-by-step toward writing a novel from ground zero. And she does it in manageable chunks that help you build your writing career around other responsibilities.Katz starts......
• Are You Earning What You Are Worth? This Friday is Writers Worth Day, a celebration of the importance of placing an appropriate value on the work you do. The annual event was created by writer Lori Widmer, and she gives the background and details on her blog. It seems easy to value freelance work--you charge by the......
• Writing Roundup, December 4 The Business of Writing Craft Fiction Freelancing Platform The Business of Writing What Can I Expect of My Agent? Moonrat posts a nice description of what you can expect in your relationship with your agent. Read this post, then visit agent Kate Schafer Testerman's blog for a follow-up and......
• Writers and Holidays Holidays are a funny thing for we writers. Many of us have day jobs, and many of us have the day off from them today. Yay! But, I will be spending a large portion of my day writing, networking, researching--you know, working. Labor Day will be like any other weekend......

• Memorial Day Holiday I'm taking the day off today to enjoy some time with my family and get some more work done on our yard projects.  I hope...
• Top 6 Health and Fitness Gifts That Should be on Your Holiday Wish List This Year Happy Holidays! The items on the following list should be on your holiday wish list this year and/or on your list to give to others...
• Week Roundup Week of June 08 This week from the Fitness Health Network I present to you more of my favorite posts: Taking soda out of your diet? NCN chronicles the...
• My Mind is There, My Body...Not So Much I came to the realization that my body just simply can not keep up with my mind. I am mentally focused and want to crank...
• Too Much Turkey I'm sure it's the Tryptophan "talking", but... I'm so sleepy... from all this Tur-key I wish I could stay to find a word that rhymes...