Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

Penultimate Tally. NaNoWriMo Day 29

Words Saturday: 1885

Words Today: 1827

Total Words: 58,598


 

Tonight is for expectations and preparations. The kids are easing back into their school routines. We laid out our clothes, packed our bags, and made plans for the big return. I attempted to keep them from teetering over from preparedness to panic/Sunday blues.

It’s how I am approaching December after NaNoWriMo.

After writing today, I spent an hour planning out my writing schedule for December, with an eye towards January and February as well. I feel in control of my writing-as-career for the first time, and the feeling is the same I got when I purchased all my back-to-school materials as a child. Notebooks are uncreased, pens are ready to go, folders organized.

Tomorrow is the end of NaNoWriMo, and I’ve already “won” in ways I hadn’t imagined.

Easing into it…