Welcome to my portfolio of published writing.
After a busy and creative summer, I’m taking a hiatus from writing fiction (I never thought I’d say that). All the latest published stories are still here. Don’t be shy about commenting… although I’m in writer’s hibernation, I’d love to hear from you.
If you’re interested in an editorial consultation on your creative work, click the new link for all relevant info.
xo J.
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
January 7th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Very fine story,”Kid,” Jennifer. You kept me guessing about the narrator’s sex for quite a while. Like his sisters, he too rounded up, became three dimensional, long before arriving at the final graph. Jeff’s voice has a distinctly feminine, petulant quality to it from this old misogyinst’s point of view. But you did capture a younger brother, selp-absorbed, almost narcissitic, disdainful of his elder sisters actions and ignorant of their lives, their travails and desires.
Now, I’m wondering, haven’t we met before in the blogosphere?
February 1st, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Hi Jennifer,
I am a self-publisher and have recently started a website. I was wondering if I could use some of your material on my website as I was really impressed with your work an I believe they will add a new flavour and attract more readers to my site.
Thanks
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Hi Jennifer!
Great article (“FIVE REASONS WHY EVERY WRITER NEEDS A WEBSITE”) in Volume XI : Issue 5 of Worldwide Freelance Writer.
Though I’m a writer who already has a site, I perked up at the headline and read your feature with great interest, even if just to confirm what I already know – and also add to it.
Very well written, helpful and encouraging.
Thanks and keep writing!
~Victor
February 5th, 2010 at 2:02 am
Hi Jennifer,
Just read your article in this week’s Writers Newsletter. A great piece, with plenty of useful advice – particularly about the aspect of linking back to publications and publishers.
Pete.
June 22nd, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Jennifer~ As always it was a pleasure to talk with you today. Read both of the Mused stories. Just loved them. You’ve got “it!” That’s for sure. Always enjoy your writing. Both stories lend themselves to film.(Big or small screen.) Keep us posted on all things Jenn, OK? Looking forward to it!
October 26th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Hi Jennifer,
I just sent you an email and then clicked on your site. Hmmmm, an avid writer AND reader. Hope to meet you and learn more. Thanks again for contacting me.
Ginger
December 22nd, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Hi Jennifer,
I just read your article, “Why Writers Should Have a Web Site,” in Worldwide Freelance Writer and wanted to thank you for inspiring me to start writing on my blog again. The article was wonderful. It brought hope to us writers out here who continue to put pen and paper together in our effort to contribute to the everchanging world around us.
Thank you,
Carline
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Hi Jennifer
i’ve just read your article on worldwidefreelance and on an impulse read your memoir ‘painting’ coz it got me curious and also because I’m interested in writing memoirs myself. Excellent work. It made me feel that i’m not the only one who existed once in a fractured world. thanks.
December 24th, 2010 at 12:12 am
I loved that book too! (Never Let Me Go)
March 7th, 2011 at 11:01 am
HelLO? Aplogies up front–I know this is not what the “comment” box is for… but oh well! I am not on Facebook… please email me? Would love to catch up and see how you are. XOX
July 2nd, 2011 at 6:08 am
I read your piece on the three character rule (http://ezinearticles.com/?Create-Amazing-Drama-in-Your-Fiction-With-the-Three-Character-Rule&id=3731621) and I needed to comment.
I think you have tapped into something very primordial with that structure. Years ago I was at the University of Wisconsin and I had a stack of used copies of Konrad Lorenz’s “On Aggression” (
http://www.amazon.com/Aggression-Harvest-Book-Hb-291/dp/0156687410) that I handed out to undergrads that wanted to pursue studies in Ethology. This book is a wonderful, non-technical, treatise on Animal Behavior focusing on Aggression and Alliances (courtship) in animals. He discusses these interactions in depth. I think you are recommending organizing writing at a very primitive level in our minds. This might be a clue to why your own story telling is so successful.