Jen Knox
@www.jenknox.net
Author, RADICALS (Library Tales, Dec 26) & AT WORK (2027, Cornerstone Press - University of Wisconsin; Creativity & Mindset Coach; Founder, Unleash Creatives; dog mom; anti-extremist; a believer in the value of human stories. jenknox.com www.jenknox.net
You and your efforts are a gift in any room, never a burden. Remember this, and don’t sell yourself or your work short. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky #novelsky #authorsky
You and your efforts are a gift in any room, never a burden. Remember this, and don’t sell yourself or your work short.
a letter to writers and anyone who needs to hear that sharing art can be messy, and we often need to invite ourselves
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Revisiting the day job narrative. What would your manuscript look like? open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
The day job narrative. What would your manuscript look like?
revisiting the constraints of working roles and their potential to reshape identity
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Alternate worlds for creative problem-solving open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... What Prince, a roofer, a scientist, or a chef might teach use about being creatively stuck... #5amwritersclub #writesky #amwriting #booksky
Alternate worlds for creative problem-solving
What Prince, a roofer, a scientist, or a chef might teach use about being creatively stuck
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Dropping the artificial everything, getting back to the root substack.com/@jenknox/not... #5amwritersclub #writesky #writinginnotebooks
Dropping the artificial everything, getting back to the root
Take a moment to slow down and sit with me.
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How to fail beautifully as a writer, as a person “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett www.jenknox.net/p/how-to-fai... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #writingwell #failingwell
How to fail beautifully as a writer, as a human (I'm an expert)
ah, so that's why it's called the resilient creative
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"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson This beautiful little fawn was curled up next to my neighbor’s house this morning. #5amwritersclub #writesky
Sometimes the inner critic is right, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to her. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #WritingAsSelfCare #WomenWriters #VictoriaWoodhull #InnerCritic #AuthorLife #BookMarketing #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction
Sometimes the inner critic is right, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to her.
the historical voices I study have been ignored, imprisoned, and ridiculed for their words; is today different?
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Have you ever come across your own words from the past, which you may or may not have fully understood, realizing they are exactly what you needed today? Republishing "Time Away" on my blog today open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #flashfiction #5amwritersclub #writesky #unplannedpost #arcticocean
Time Away
flash fiction by Jen Knox (c) 2022, originally published in Five South
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Creative portals that lead to endless inspiration www.jenknox.net/p/how-writin... Cheers to finding your creative portals, #5amwritersclub #writesky #letswrite #theresilientcreative
Creative portals that lead to endless inspiration
The art of resurrecting simple truths through story, and how I got to know George Sand
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Hello, #5amwritersclub! I was actually up at 4 this a.m. and wrote! Read up. #writesky open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
On anxiety and creative output: when navigating ambiguity, storytelling can be dangerous
exploring the stories we tell ourselves when no one is watching or, maybe worse, when it seems everyone is
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When I was growing up, I realized most of the authors I read were no longer living. Their characters and ideas, however, were very much alive inside me and other readers. And, to my young mind, I believed this to be magic. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub ##writesky
When writing outlives not only the writer
Zora Neale Hurston's curiosity propelled her
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Why radical voices are necessary: a nod to those who are "before their time" open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... I’ve always been fascinated by people who sacrifice convention and its de facto safety in exchange for an unrelenting devotion #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #yokoono
Why radical voices are necessary: a nod to those who were "before their time"
Let's find out what it takes to stay true to our vision without constant (or even any) validation
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How birds dream and the myth of the ideal author platform open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #freemeditation #scatteredenergy #writesky
How birds dream and the myth of the ideal author platform
Scattered energy and how to connect in our digital-everything world
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It's actually #5am, #5amwritersclub! I made it. “Music is a torch with which to see where beauty lies.” — Atahualpa Yupanqui In our creative resilience circle yesterday, we started to make a playlist. What music is keeping you going right now? www.jenknox.net/p/the-freque... #writesky
Water is always heading toward its source. Whatever the pace and barriers, it gets there, eventually, even if it has to freeze or find itself surrounded by earth; even if it has to evaporate and rain down again, it is always moving, always.
“The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.” —Koun Yamada www.jenknox.net/p/finding-cr... I have been doing all the things... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky
Finding creative clarity at the start of a new season and creating even when revising
How writing a letter to my own writing reminded me how precious this exchange can be
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Creative energy is everywhere at all times. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky
Creative energy is everywhere (let's take a look around while we wait for the water to boil)
on potential, patience, creativity, and the utter joy of listening to what lives beneath the words
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“We understand reality in terms of interaction … how we interact with one another.” —Carlo Rovelli #5amwritersclub #writesky #radicals open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
Those who did it anyway & how we shape our reality
for times when we are told we cannot
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Perhaps instead of taking a break or hiding out, we can recommit. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #compassionfatigue #writingprompt #5amwritersclub #meditation #miniworkshop
Perhaps instead of taking a break or hiding out, we can recommit.
on unease and fortitude
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What is performance art, and why should it matter to writers? open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #resilientcreative
What is performance art, and why should it matter to writers?
Where sentences move us, and where we need to move to find meaning
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On the myriad ways we are asked to disappear and an argument for getting back to our humanness open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #humannature
On the myriad ways we are asked to disappear and an argument for getting back to our humanness
We are not here to master nature, we are nature; an easy week 6 challenge to remind us creativity is about harmony and not competition
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We need stories of powerful people to believe in ourselves today. But how to share them in fiction? And why? #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky #novelsky open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
Writing about real people: what gets lost and what can be held
When writing about real people who came before, how do we honor, how do we offer something true while maintaining our own creative voices? Week 5 - get out your journals & explore
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Your exhibition, all the selves; what would they tell you? open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #imactuallyup #writesky #novelsky #cnfprompt #writingprompt
Your exhibition, all the selves; what would they tell you?
a simple exploration and prompt
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