Nothing inspires me more than a summer rainstorm. I adore the rain – a product of my desert upbringing, I’m sure – and I especially love it in the summer when it comes in and cools everything down for a while. It’s a nice break from the oppressive Texas heat. As I mentioned in my post … Continue reading
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Marfa-lous Mumford and Jake G
This is an exceptionally late post, I know, but there is good reason for it. Yesterday I spent all day driving through a dust storm. Sunday I spent all day in Marfa, Tx rocking out at the Railroad Revival Tour with Mumford & Sons. Marfa is a dusty little town in far West Texas with … Continue reading
A Path of a Different Sort
It has been a rough week my friends. I’m blocked on my revisions of chapter one, I’m concerned about the massive wild fires keeping me from making it home this weekend to see my family and Mumford and Sons, and I’m still recovering from the sample fat-burner I took yesterday that made me feel like … Continue reading
Time to Kill
Now that I’ve gotten 8 critiques on my work, it’s time to put those puppies to use and revise my first chapter. Revising – to me – is the hardest part of the creative writing process. Here you’ve got this piece of artwork you’ve created that is pretty good, and now using the varying and … Continue reading
A Mouth Full of Teeth (Ch.1)
Alrighty, since I’m feeling pretty confident still I am going to share with you the first chapter of my novel A Mouth Full of Teeth. I encourage you to leave comments; let me know what you think of it, don’t be shy! What do you think works well? What do you think could use improvement? Is … Continue reading
Spinning Jenni 