What happened to Genealogy Jen? Update
I’ve been absent from my blog for several months now. Here’s why.
Overthinking Writing
I appreciate that you are spending your moments with me. And there are a lot of other writers out there who don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. Or make a sentence fragment a whole sentence. Like I do…
Do you. Your Voice Matters.
“Maybe you should charge him a nickel. You’re the one that’s having the financial issues right now. You could probably use it.”
She must have seen the stunned expression on my face through the shadows in the van.
She said she was just joking, but I didn’t see the humor. No one laughed.
DIY repurposed writer’s journal
Don’t miss the slide show at the bottom of the post. Like most writers, I usually keep a journal with me to write, jot ideas, to do lists, and take notes in meetings or church. I’ve had various sizes and formats over the years. I would rather reuse...
Facing my fears 12 Criticism,38 Saying I’m a writer and 40 That my voice doesn’t matter
“I simply don’t think this is very believable. I don’t think that you, or the voice in this poem is going to think about picking raspberries with her grandmother while she is being raped. This doesn’t ring true to me at all, and I can tell...
Facing my 40 fears
Being brave to me isn’t skydiving for my 40th birthday, or climbing a mountain. That would be less daunting than issues that rock my core, and cause night terrors. My fears are the things I don’t usually talk about, but leave me feeling exhausted and paralyzed with in action. I’m ready to change that.
Rediscovering Writing
Someday, when I look back, I’ll see how much I’ve changed and grown on the inside. Even if no one else notices, I will and that is all that will matter to me. – Jennifer Goff age 13