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.

Habit formed. Phase Two — Craft

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I’m back to writing every day. That habit is formed. I get anxious if I haven’t written anything by 3:00. That’s a very very good sign.

Phase two is now to continue writing but not feel the need to post every day. That was to hold myself accountable and get in the daily writing habit. It has produced some junk. It has produced some crazy. It has produced some good.

So now some writing will be spaced out over days. I want to now publicly present my best, not my every. This means editing and pondering and allowing myself the time to craft a piece, be it  on one day or over eight.

My goal is to continue reigniting the personal essay passion I used to excel at. I want to storytell publicly by years’ end. I want to publish an essay or a short memoir piece.  The fear is brushed off, now is the time for ink-stained fingers. And a beret.