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.

Day 31. Chugging.

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Still writing.

Everything from last week, the week of no sleep, no silence, no thought just can’t count towards the Day Count (hence why I’m on Day 31). The drafts from the last ten days are staggeringly bad. I’m putting them in the Time Out corner.

Today I’m tucking into a little Jazz Age-inspired writing.  I love that era.

I purchased a new notebook for my upcoming trip this week. I will be off the grid mostly, but writing every day. Change of scenery, change of pace, not changing diapers should be interesting.

It’s easy to look at my inspiration, especially local writers who managed to write scenes/chapters/movies every day for a year or a month or a block of time and feel discouraged.  You know what? My 100 days will not be uninterrupted. So be it.

I asked myself this morning — What if, at the end of 100 Days, you have a few short pieces up on this site and nothing else to show for it?

And the answer was, Write More on Day 101.

Chugga Chugga Chugga.