Jaclyn Paul / Lena George

author. mom. nerd. lover of mountains, rime ice, and cloud inversions.

Blog

  • My editing process: blog post opening

    I occasionally share tidbits of my writing process with my Patreon crew, but today’s share felt like a blog post. So here we are! I’m going to show a little window into my blogging process. Many of my posts here are casual and off-the-cuff. Not so with my ADHD Homestead blog. Every ADHD Homestead post…

  • Late-pandemic thoughts: please talk to me about work

    Friends, it’s been a minute. I make no excuses. 2021 is the year I stop pretending this space is anything other than a more professional, less coming-of-age-angst-y incarnation of my early-2000s LiveJournal. Blogs felt so different then. They allowed us to step into the writer’s mind and process life through their lens. Terms like SEO,…

  • An office switcheroo to help salvage pandemic productivity

    I haven’t posted at all since the pandemic began. Like most of us, I have complicated feelings about many things. However, I’ll jump back in with something lighter: how I’ve adapted my physical workspace to our new life. I used to have exclusive domain over my home office. This didn’t always feel like a blessing,…

  • Join me tonight for a virtual reading and discussion with The Ivy Bookshop!

    Tonight I’ll be hosting, along with The Ivy Bookshop, a reading and discussion about my book Order from Chaos. I have a post for the event already on The ADHD Homestead, so I’ll direct y’all there to avoid duplication. Click on the image below for all the details!

  • My newly ad-free online platform, almost five months in

    [click_to_tweet tweet=”You can get ad revenue from a viral blog post, but that money means nothing tomorrow. It doesn’t predict who will return to your site, sign up for your email list, or buy your next book. All it tells you is you wrote one good headline. #authorplatform” quote=”You can get ad revenue from a…