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December is a Great Month! Know Why? LitFriends Newsletter –Because this community cares about the written word and critical thinking. Dear LitFriends, This holiday season, I’d like to share why this newsletter and the work of JackWalkerPress.com and AmyLouJenkins.com is so important to me. My thoughts and opinions have evolved as I’ve aged (I’m in …
LitFriends: A Life of Letters, With Coupons LitFriends Newsletter from JackWalkerPress.com and AmyLouJenkins.com Dear LitFriends, Did you ever consider the phrase “living a life of letters?” I thought it might be a hoity-toity phrase for snobby people. At Bennington, where I earned my MFA in literature and writing, at first, I’d cringe when I heard …
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LitFriends Exclusive: No-cost Book Promotion and Exciting Updates! New anthology, new course, new articles, new news From JackWalkerPress.com and AmyLouJenkins.com First, let me offer my sincere concern and love for all those suffering from acts of violence, hate, lies, and power grabs all around the world. If all we have to respond are acts of …
LitFriends Newsletter: The Personal Essay and Resistance Are You Making Writing Harder Than It Should Be? (I am) LitFriends, every time I overcome resistance to writing, I feel better. I wish resistance would go away, but it never will. I wanted to write this little intro days ago, but I was working in my head …
Subscribe: Litfriends Newsletter Rabbit Holes: Are you Subterranean Too? Another Summer LitFriends Newsletter Click Here to go Directly to the quiz LITFRIENDS* I recently read Carson Tate’s “Work Simply” (affiliate link) and discovered I’m a Visualizer. I am a like a distracted bunny jumping down holes until I get a visual big picture of my writing project. …
New Puppy Energy: Unorganized, Exciting, Needs Work LITFRIENDS* We just adopted Wilson; the new puppy energy in the house is both exciting and draining. Even though we know a puppy will be a lot of work, we forget how much. We have trained puppies before, but each puppy is different. Wilson is smart but uncivilized. …
The Magic of Tiny Writing Goals and Consistency LITFRIENDS* One of our subscribers, let’s call her “T”, sent me a brief email. She said she needs motivation to reach her writing goals. I understand, it’s so easy to NOT write. Sir Issac Newton taught us in his first law that “every object will remain at …
LitFriends Newsletter: Your Voice: An Idea or a Living entity? Writers distort the limitations of time. When Bob Seger wrote Like a Rock, he animated the feeling of being a fit teenager on an endorphin-fueled run. I drove to St Louis to see Seger on his farewell tour. His white hair and small shrunken body, …