Jen's Lists

"My final reducing advice can be summed up in two words: think small. Don’t rummage around in your past—or your family’s past—to find e...

A Student of the Scriptures (I wrote this for the Relief Society newsletter) “The difference between good and poor learners is not the ...

"I was ready, however-or maybe I should say I was ready to be ready-for Woolf's sentences. I had not only never seen language like...

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, sl...

Image from Suavilogy I love this post by Terresa Wellborn at The Chocolate Chip Waffle L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get a...

Image from here "I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. ...

Take any ten years of your life, reduce them to two pages, and every sentence has to be three words long—not two, not four, but three words ...

From a New Yorker interview with Joseph Cuomo "As you walk along, you find things...by the wayside or you buy a brochure written by a l...

"It is the very extent of human life, the infinite number of things contained in it, its contradictory and fluctuating interests, the t...

“  Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it or underpl...

I went to a writing workshop on Friday and one of the suggestions they had was to keep a list of words you like. It was so fun to hear publ...