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.

Oh Purdy. Day 25 of 100 Days of Writing

Changes of scenery often inspire, hence the new look for the blog.

Ha, just kidding. I just wanted to mess around with how it looks.

Currently working on a monologue about a woman who has is supremely confident in her own sexuality for an unusual reason.

The idea for this came during my walk today. I like walking. Sometimes I can even pretend by yelling “on your left” to dogs lying in their front yards minding their own business.  Walking is the best way for ideas, writing and otherwise, to shake themselves into a reasonable web.  Some people smarter than I would attribute that to the rhythmic and repetitive nature of the activity. Other people who are me would attribute that to having an hour or so without the Mini Pickadillies terrorist demands requests for assistance, attention, and loving acts.

I was moodling about wanting to get back on stage, to get back behind the stage as well. Really thinking about what I want to work on theatrically and with whom. Those thoughts wandered to the types of parts currently out there for women my age. That was a brief thought because there are actually few. I’m in a bit of a “meaty part” age void.

But there is always Nunsense.

More parts are going to have to be crafted for women in this very fertile crescent, and I’d love to craft them.

And I went from Nunsense to…well, that’s to be continued.