I forgot to mention this last week, but I’ve started writing a column at Crushable which are a series of letters to my younger self. Similar to my Dear Teen Me letters, but focusing on a slightly older age. (In fact, it was my most recent Dear Teen Me letter that prompted the editor of [...]
If you guys remember, at the end of last year, I wrote a Dear Teen Me letter to my 16-year-old self. Now I’ve written another to my 18-year-old self. :)
My Dear Teen Me letter is up today! It is surprisingly angsty (which my teenage years weren’t) and about FEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS, of all things. I tried to write about the bildungsroman, but eh. Oh well. It’s kind of hard to write to your teenage self when you don’t have anything useful to say to her. I [...]
Awesome thing! Waking up to snowfall. (A pittance, but I’ll take it.) Not-so-awesome thing! Waking up to single digit temperatures. (Well, it “feels like” 8 degrees according to Weather.com. I don’t care if it’s actually 19. It feels fucking cold!) Friday I fly home to warm and sunny southern California for an extended Christmas break. [...]
You are all aware of the Dear Teen Me project, yes? If not, then you should remedy that immediately by going to the website and reading all the letters authors have posted to their younger selves. This project is the brainchild of E. Kristin Anderson and Miranda Kenneally, and they graciously invited me to participate. [...]
S. Jae-Jones, but JJ, if you please. Editrix at St. Martin's Press. Writer. Artist. Avid skydiver. And she abandons her mind to obscure arts.