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.

NaNO NOnsense Day 17

Words today: 1721

Total Words: 39,914


I look forward to breaking 40,000 tomorrow. I slogged through this one after a very long day of meetings. It takes a lot of effort to let myself write drafts without critiquing the quality of the writing. It is, in a way, one of the advantages of writing essays and passages, rather than a novel, but this is definitely one of the days I wish I were writing a novel that I could at least get from a Point A to a Point B every day.

See you tomorrow with less blurry eyes.