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.

Blush. NaNoWriMo Day 20

Words Today: 1755

Total Words: 45,733


 

Writing drained me today. I hit on some of those deep embarrassing moments that are true and therefore very difficult to write about.

The writing is good, because it is honest and very human and eventually I will craft it into something funny. It is a story about the time I had what polite company calls “upset tummy” on my one and only date with someone I’d had a crush on for twenty years.

I feel a tiring and active embarrassment, which I choose to believe means my work for today is done.