About Jen
Jen is a twenty-something who lives and breathes words. Sometimes she eats them too, but only when she's feeling peckish.
This blog is focused primarily on Young Adult literature, but writing thoughts sneak in now and again. Random thoughts used to sneak in quite often, but now, not so much. For more varied content, you can visit Jen's personal blog, Speaking Jenerally.
Or, you can try her on YouTube where she has a sporadically updated personal channel and where she also does a little BookTubing.If you’re lost, you can look & you will find me
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Jan 2013
Whenever I peruse writing forums and blogs, I often come across a rule warning writers away from from using prologues in their writing. Especially when it comes to the flash-forward type of prologue, where the reader is presented with a scene or situation and we don’t yet know the details leading into it. And probably [...]
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Oct 2012
NaNoWriMo 2012!
Categories: Blog Posts, The Write Stuff
It’s one of my favorite days of the year! No, not Halloween. NaNoWriMo Eve. This is just a little love note to let my blog followers know that if things get (or, I guess I should say, continue to be slow on le blog) it is because I am furiously working to add 50,000 words [...]
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Aug 2012
WriteOnCon 2012: I’m Going Back!
Categories: Blog Posts, The Write Stuff
Good morning! The morning of WriteOnCon 2012 has dawned. And yes… yes I am participating. I really have no excuse not to since I’ve fallen dreadfully behind in Camp NaNoWriMo. I’ve been semi-lurking through the forums (my username is jbaggiero if you want to add me as a friend!) and posted the first 250 words of [...]
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Aug 2012
The Crazies of August
Categories: Blog Posts, The Write Stuff
So August is here. Rabbit, rabbit and all that jazz. And I’ve always thought of it as a lazy month. It’s in summer, it includes my birthday… But it is going to be the craziest month that I’ve had for a while, so the blog is going to be updated SPORADICALLY. I mean, yes, I [...]
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Jul 2012
Camp Wordsmith is a weekly venture in which Angel of Mermaid Vision Books, Christa of Hooked on Books, and I post about our work in writing over the past week. We’ll also discuss various issues to do with craft. The goals here are simple. We want to write, so we’re making a public effort before all of [...]
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May 2012
Every now and again I reference one or both of my internships on here. Some of you might know that I intern for the incredible literary development company, Paper Lantern Lit, but more recently I began an internship with the amazing literary agent Melissa Sarver of the Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency. And it JUST SO [...]
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May 2012
Camp Wordsmith Check-in
Categories: Blog Posts, The Write Stuff
Camp Wordsmith is a weekly venture in which Angel of Mermaid Vision Books, Christa of Hooked on Books, and I post about our work in writing over the past week. We’ll also discuss various issues to do with craft. The goals here are simple. We want to write, so we’re making a public effort before all of [...]
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May 2012
Camp Wordsmith Check-in
Categories: Blog Posts, The Write Stuff
Camp Wordsmith is a weekly venture in which Angel of Mermaid Vision Books, Christa of Hooked on Books, and I post about our work in writing over the past week. We’ll also discuss various issues to do with craft. The goals here are simple. We want to write, so we’re making a public effort before all of [...]
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Apr 2012
Today, I’m pleased to welcome self-published author Emily Devenport to Almost Grown-up. Emily was previously published through traditional means and has recently started trying her hand at e-books. Her latest novel, Spirits of Glory, is a YA novel published through Smashwords. In her guest post, Emily discusses dreams as a writing inspiration and piecing it together to [...]
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Apr 2012
Camp Wordsmith Progress Report
Categories: Blog Posts, The Write Stuff
Camp Wordsmith is a weekly venture in which Angel of Mermaid Vision Books, Christa of Hooked on Books, and I post about our work in writing over the past week. We’ll also discuss various issues to do with craft. The goals here are simple. We want to write, so we’re making a public effort before all of [...]
