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.

Sleepy. NaNoWriMo Day 27

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Words Today: 1588

Total Words: 54,886

 

As my uncle would ask, How was your Thanksgiving(,) turkey?

I wonder now if I should do total words per month as I continue past November. Probably not, as I will be spending as much if not more time revising, rewriting, and editing as I do crafting. But it’s a fun thing to keep track of. I’m small-goal oriented.

The second look at all these pieces will begin December 1. I’m curious to see what I did. I did not allow myself to edit as I write, which is a habit I had to unlearn. Remember standardized tests in school? Write a perfect-as-possible essay in 45 minutes? That stuck with me. I did not reread anything I wrote this last month, other than the last sentence if it was a piece I was picking up on a subsequent day.

 

I’m also full of leftovers: turkey and pie and mashed potatoes and gratitude.

And another kid is sick, so there’s not a lot of sleep happening here as floors rumble from his all-night coughing fits, poor kid. The cloudy, windy night again urges me to curl up and rest. And so I shall.