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.

Snow! NaNoWriMo Day 21

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Words Today: 2023

Total Words: 47,756

 

Closing in on 50,000 words for NaNo. I am feeling more fluid in my writing than I have in years. This was probably aided by the first snow of the season. While I didn’t have a lot of time to write today, I did get to park myself by the fire in a less-than-comfortable chair and write for an hour. A slight turn of the head allowed me to witness the snow. It was slow and beautiful. Giant flakes danced their way down to rest on branches and ground, bringing back to life a landscape that only hours ago had been weary and worn. A juvenile male cardinal rested on a tree close to the window, in stark contrast to the white and evergreen landscape.

The world was made fresh today. I wished only to sit and craft, with breaks to read and nap.

It was a day of If Only, in writing and reality.