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.

NaNoWriMo Day 1

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Word Count:
Today: 1735
Total: 1735

Today I wrote a draft for that book about multiples that I mentioned the other day. I won’t be putting that on here unless it is not selected for publication, as they want previously unpublished pieces, but I feel really good that I got it written and most of the 1735 words were making me laugh. That’s always a good sign.

I won’t count editing that piece towards my daily numbers, so I’ll be here tomorrow, giving you my 1666 or so.

I will daily update my numbers, but as I plan on most of my NaNoWriMo writing pieces to be for this blog (assuming no awesome assignments come up), I will only put the pieces up when they are complete. It may only be every few days.

I feel wild and a little off-balance knowing I’ll be writing without topics at hand. I feel I owe it to myself. 50,000 words by November 30, and no idea where I’m going with them.

It’s going to get weird in here.