Jaclyn Paul / Lena George
author. mom. nerd. lover of mountains, rime ice, and cloud inversions.
Blog
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The stories we don’t want to tell
On the afternoon of April 20, 1999, my mom was driving me to an after-school activity when she told me, “I have to talk to you about something.” I was in eighth grade. Old enough to know when someone waits for a quiet moment to say, I have to talk to you about something, it’s…
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4 boundaries that helped me meet big writing deadlines this month
Narration on this post is made possible by my ADHD Homestead Patreon supporters ???? Friends, my life has been a bit of a mess lately. My current novel manuscript will finally set sail for the copy editor on Monday. That is, as my grandmother used to say, barring anything unforeseen. Well. As an adult human…
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Wandering a favorite writing spot
I’ve written often about writing at the beach, and how I would never have two finished books to my name without our humble family bungalow. And yet, I don’t pull massive word counts on every beach trip. In fact, since our first pandemic summer, I haven’t written much there at all. My two most recent…
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At least two weird analogies about drafting and early revision
I’m currently writing a series of essays for The ADHD Homestead. They’ve provided a case in point for why I stopped numbering these series in advance. I may have thought I knew how many posts this would turn out to be, but Post #1 has already become three posts. So that’s how that’s going. The…