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.

Slog. NaNoWriMo

Today’s Words: 1759

Total Words: 31,094


 

Little little is sick again, so I’m now in week 8 with a child sick for at least some of the week. She and I have been up since four, and the writing has been relegated to “don’t even think about quality, just put words on the page when you can” status.

I honestly am tired of my house smelling stale layered over chicken noodle soup.

Hopefully I can find that rhythm again this weekend.

But right now, it’s about Paris and those poor people. It is where my focus goes tonight.