A journey from traumatic impact to hard-won insight, and the resilience and redemption found along the way. And a teaching on writing memoir to include lessons on plot, structure, antagonistic forces!
I welcome your comments here, but throughout the posting of chapters, have turned off that function in order it reads like a true book. Commentary gets in the way of the continuity. Teaching posts will also have lots of places to comment. 🐦⬛
This is so fascinating, Jennifer! Thank you not only for sharing your work but taking us behind the curtain to see how it's done. About to jump into Chapter 1 now.
I serialized my memoir before publishing it also. I found that it held me accountable to the writing and story itself. I didn’t realize that I had followed the W structure until I just read your post. It happened intuitively. I’m looking forward to reading your chapters!
Hi Jennifer. I serialized it to paid subscribers having them opt in to the chapters on Convert Kit. That way no matter when they opted in they would always begin at the beginning and would receive one chapter at a time. The chapters were before final edits. Each chapter also came with a few paragraphs on how I felt when I wrote it. The feedback was invaluable to me and I’ll be able to use it in marketing the book. It will publish on September 10, 2024 through a hybrid publisher-She Writes Press. There are a few free chapters on my Substack also. Does that answer your question? Also I loved your chapter and how you write!
I LOVE these chapters. I just finished Blackbird, and cannot figure out how I missed that when you published it. I read it in one day. So so so so good! Summer of 72 looks like it will keep me spellbound, as well. Thank you!
I welcome your comments here, but throughout the posting of chapters, have turned off that function in order it reads like a true book. Commentary gets in the way of the continuity. Teaching posts will also have lots of places to comment. 🐦⬛
This is so fascinating, Jennifer! Thank you not only for sharing your work but taking us behind the curtain to see how it's done. About to jump into Chapter 1 now.
I serialized my memoir before publishing it also. I found that it held me accountable to the writing and story itself. I didn’t realize that I had followed the W structure until I just read your post. It happened intuitively. I’m looking forward to reading your chapters!
Great to have you here. Could you share about the publishing side...how did that happen? I'm all 👂🏻
Hi Jennifer. I serialized it to paid subscribers having them opt in to the chapters on Convert Kit. That way no matter when they opted in they would always begin at the beginning and would receive one chapter at a time. The chapters were before final edits. Each chapter also came with a few paragraphs on how I felt when I wrote it. The feedback was invaluable to me and I’ll be able to use it in marketing the book. It will publish on September 10, 2024 through a hybrid publisher-She Writes Press. There are a few free chapters on my Substack also. Does that answer your question? Also I loved your chapter and how you write!
Hey...thank you. Well done. Super strategic. I'm sending you all sorts of prayers for success. Well done.
Thank you! Wishing you all the best too!
I LOVE these chapters. I just finished Blackbird, and cannot figure out how I missed that when you published it. I read it in one day. So so so so good! Summer of 72 looks like it will keep me spellbound, as well. Thank you!
Wow! That was fast!
Congratulations! So excited to be on this ride with you!
So so honored to have you here! 🥰
Looking forward to going on this journey with you in the Summer of ‘72.
I look forward to reading it. Thanks for sharing your process.
I’m excited to read this, and perhaps doubly excited to hear how publishing in this format feels for you. Thank you for sharing the behind-the-scenes!