I do have over 600 members in The Writer’s Oasis and adding more every week.Īnd yes, I have made a good living from my writing since 1992.īut that’s only part of the story. I do tend to sell out my writing retreats in a day or two. Yes, I’ve written seven books that are now in 9 languages and have almost a million copies in print. I’m telling you these stories because based on all of my work that has been bought and published, you could make the argument that I’m a successful writer. It’s possible you’re thinking, ‘Jen, are you just trying to get me to never write at all because the writing world is so damn tough?’ The column I wrote for years for a popular national magazine was canceled a year after Martha Stewart’s company bought it. The book I sold to Random House called The Mood Changer (never published, would have been my sixth book at the time) got taken over by a new editor who told me, “I’m not really a fan of you, your writing, or this book.”
#Superpower 2 editor has stopped working tv#
My first and only TV episode was substantially rewritten and I only got a “story by” credit.
My first screenplays were turned down by everyone who read them, although they did get me “meetings” and an agent which was supposed to mean I had a career. My first writing teacher in college, the great southern writer, Harry Crews, paid me no mind at all, even though I had grand delusions of being his star pupil. I have very little, if any, natural talent and the b-‘s and c’s I got on my stories and papers reflected that. When I first started writing I was bad at it.
And for those who’d prefer to read, I wrote a post for you. I made this video for you about just that. On my drive home I thought a lot about this: how hard it is to keep pursuing our work when it takes time to mature, when we doubt ourselves, when others doubt us, and when it would be far easier to up and quit. I have learned to do this work! About half the women who attend my retreats come back again and again and several reflected to me during the retreat how proud they are of me and my growth. I just back from leading a writing retreat in Taos, which filled up my heart and soul in a thousand ways, and made me so proud of myself.
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