What I'm Working On....

a slice of my studio

I continue to be swamped in creative projects over here. It's glorious and terrifying.

Here's what I've been working on lately:

• My collection of sea stories
• Staying off of Facebook and Twitter (it's not working)
• Transforming a ragtag collection of essays into a book (a large part of the glorious and terrifying)
• Remembering to eat and stretch and look away from the computer screen every so often
• Coaching other creative souls along their writing path (love this!)
• The next session of Alchemy (it's coming soon!)
• Reading about the nature of language and how it uses us (for a lecture I'm giving this summer)
• Getting ready to attend AWP
  
• Preparing my first packet of work for my this (my last!) semester of my MFA
• Getting ready to be a mentor at Pen & Paper (will I see you there?)
• Learning how to use my new camera, my first DSLR, which I like to call my Big Girl Camera
• Eating all of those cupcakes I baked last week (it's not hard)
• Drinking enough water (not hard, either)
• Being kind to myself in the midst of edits that bring me fact-to-face with an earlier, less mature incarnation of my writing self (significantly harder than the cupcakes and water)
• Writing the truth, even when it's difficult or ugly, and even when I'm not sure what the truth is (definitely not easy)

What are you working on?

Comments

[Katie]

So proud of you, Jenna. This is good, deep work.

I'm working on: writing the truth about a wonderful, messy time in my life; trying to figure out what the next phase of my work-life looks like; making enough soup to get us through these days; staying in touch with loved ones instead of isolating myself in my little apartment.

None of them easy. But all of them rewarding.

[jackie]

i really would love to sign up for your mailing list for your writing course. i tried clicking on mailing list, but, could not find the form. i am really inspired by your writing and i would love to enhance my writing.

[Amy]

I am working on new beginnings. I spent the last two years dismantling my old life and creating a new one, but in my writing I still exist in the old life. So I'm taking One Little Word with Ali Edwards and Get Your Paint on to explore other avenues of art to feed my soul and YES! you will see me at Pen & Paper. I am so so so excited!

[Jamye]

I'm working on the underside of writing. Not the actual words of it, but the observation and experiencing of life that will come out through the words later on. I can't see when that will happen, but I know it will, so I just wait for my time.

You and I should catch up some time. You've had so much going on since I saw you 2? 3? years ago at the beach.