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Jen Knox

@www.jenknox.net
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Author, RADICALS (Library Tales, Dec 26) & AT WORK (2027, Cornerstone Press - University of Wisconsin; Creativity & Mindset Coach; Founder, Unleash Creatives; dog mom; anti-extremist; a believer in the value of human stories. jenknox.com www.jenknox.net

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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 01/10/2026
#5amwritersclub #writing #writesky #booksky open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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Creative attention, personal attention, social attention, no attention, your attention
to ease the pressure and remedy the creative stall, look to a single piece of art
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 26/09/2026
How we shape reality as creatives www.jenknox.net/p/breaking-d... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #creativereality
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How we shape reality as creatives
Abstraction finding its way to truth
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 24/09/2026
These are always a fun challenge. #50wordstories #5amwritersclub #amwriting fiftywordstories.com
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50-Word Stories
Brand new bite-sized fiction every weekday!
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 05/09/2026
You and your efforts are a gift in any room, never a burden. Remember this, and don’t sell yourself or your work short. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky #novelsky #authorsky
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You and your efforts are a gift in any room, never a burden. Remember this, and don’t sell yourself or your work short.
a letter to writers and anyone who needs to hear that sharing art can be messy, and we often need to invite ourselves
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 26/08/2026
Cost rarely equals value. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #scotland
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On Scotland & the reason we need to celebrate art in all forms
the performances, the crowds, the love of art, the release of anxiety (this might be a part 1)
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 18/08/2026
Revisiting the day job narrative. What would your manuscript look like? open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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The day job narrative. What would your manuscript look like?
revisiting the constraints of working roles and their potential to reshape identity
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 17/08/2026
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The ENSO blog is dead. Long live the ENSO blog!
Welcome back to a new era of the ENSO blog.
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 12/08/2026
Writing the dual narrative www.jenknox.net/p/the-joy-of... #writesky #booksky #dualnarrative #5amwritersclub
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The joy of reading/torture of writing a multi-timeline novel & the value of perspective we all need right now
The worst choice ever! (Just kidding.)
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 04/08/2026
Alternate worlds for creative problem-solving open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... What Prince, a roofer, a scientist, or a chef might teach use about being creatively stuck... #5amwritersclub #writesky #amwriting #booksky
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Alternate worlds for creative problem-solving
What Prince, a roofer, a scientist, or a chef might teach use about being creatively stuck
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 04/07/2026
Dropping the artificial everything, getting back to the root substack.com/@jenknox/not... #5amwritersclub #writesky #writinginnotebooks
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Dropping the artificial everything, getting back to the root
Take a moment to slow down and sit with me.
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 18/06/2026
How to fail beautifully as a writer, as a person “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett www.jenknox.net/p/how-to-fai... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #writingwell #failingwell
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How to fail beautifully as a writer, as a human (I'm an expert)
ah, so that's why it's called the resilient creative
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 09/06/2026
Writing about place. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky
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Round on the ends and [...]. How place shapes writing voice.
Every region's landscape contributes to the tapestry of the time and our personal view of the world.
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 07/06/2026
"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson This beautiful little fawn was curled up next to my neighbor’s house this morning. #5amwritersclub #writesky
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 29/05/2026
Sometimes the inner critic is right, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to her. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #WritingAsSelfCare #WomenWriters #VictoriaWoodhull #InnerCritic #AuthorLife #BookMarketing #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction
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Sometimes the inner critic is right, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to her.
the historical voices I study have been ignored, imprisoned, and ridiculed for their words; is today different?
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 23/05/2026
Have you ever come across your own words from the past, which you may or may not have fully understood, realizing they are exactly what you needed today? Republishing "Time Away" on my blog today open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #flashfiction #5amwritersclub #writesky #unplannedpost #arcticocean
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Time Away
flash fiction by Jen Knox (c) 2022, originally published in Five South
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 19/05/2026
Creative portals that lead to endless inspiration www.jenknox.net/p/how-writin... Cheers to finding your creative portals, #5amwritersclub #writesky #letswrite #theresilientcreative
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Creative portals that lead to endless inspiration
The art of resurrecting simple truths through story, and how I got to know George Sand
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 11/05/2026
Hello, #5amwritersclub! I was actually up at 4 this a.m. and wrote! Read up. #writesky open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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On anxiety and creative output: when navigating ambiguity, storytelling can be dangerous
exploring the stories we tell ourselves when no one is watching or, maybe worse, when it seems everyone is
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 01/05/2026
When I was growing up, I realized most of the authors I read were no longer living. Their characters and ideas, however, were very much alive inside me and other readers. And, to my young mind, I believed this to be magic. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub ##writesky
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When writing outlives not only the writer
Zora Neale Hurston's curiosity propelled her
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 21/04/2026
Why radical voices are necessary: a nod to those who are "before their time" open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... I’ve always been fascinated by people who sacrifice convention and its de facto safety in exchange for an unrelenting devotion #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #yokoono
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Why radical voices are necessary: a nod to those who were "before their time"
Let's find out what it takes to stay true to our vision without constant (or even any) validation
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 12/04/2026
How birds dream and the myth of the ideal author platform open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #freemeditation #scatteredenergy #writesky
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How birds dream and the myth of the ideal author platform
Scattered energy and how to connect in our digital-everything world
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 10/04/2026
It's actually #5am, #5amwritersclub! I made it. “Music is a torch with which to see where beauty lies.” — Atahualpa Yupanqui In our creative resilience circle yesterday, we started to make a playlist. What music is keeping you going right now? www.jenknox.net/p/the-freque... #writesky
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 04/04/2026
Water is always heading toward its source. Whatever the pace and barriers, it gets there, eventually, even if it has to freeze or find itself surrounded by earth; even if it has to evaporate and rain down again, it is always moving, always.
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 03/04/2026
“The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.” —Koun Yamada www.jenknox.net/p/finding-cr... I have been doing all the things... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky
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Finding creative clarity at the start of a new season and creating even when revising
How writing a letter to my own writing reminded me how precious this exchange can be
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 19/03/2026
Creative energy is everywhere at all times. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky
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Creative energy is everywhere (let's take a look around while we wait for the water to boil)
on potential, patience, creativity, and the utter joy of listening to what lives beneath the words
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 05/03/2026
“We understand reality in terms of interaction … how we interact with one another.” —Carlo Rovelli #5amwritersclub #writesky #radicals open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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Those who did it anyway & how we shape our reality
for times when we are told we cannot
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 19/02/2026
Perhaps instead of taking a break or hiding out, we can recommit. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #compassionfatigue #writingprompt #5amwritersclub #meditation #miniworkshop
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Perhaps instead of taking a break or hiding out, we can recommit.
on unease and fortitude
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 12/02/2026
What is performance art, and why should it matter to writers? open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #resilientcreative
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What is performance art, and why should it matter to writers?
Where sentences move us, and where we need to move to find meaning
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 05/02/2026
On the myriad ways we are asked to disappear and an argument for getting back to our humanness open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #humannature
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On the myriad ways we are asked to disappear and an argument for getting back to our humanness
We are not here to master nature, we are nature; an easy week 6 challenge to remind us creativity is about harmony and not competition
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 30/01/2026
We need stories of powerful people to believe in ourselves today. But how to share them in fiction? And why? #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky #novelsky open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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Writing about real people: what gets lost and what can be held
When writing about real people who came before, how do we honor, how do we offer something true while maintaining our own creative voices? Week 5 - get out your journals & explore
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 24/01/2026
Your exhibition, all the selves; what would they tell you? open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #imactuallyup #writesky #novelsky #cnfprompt #writingprompt
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Your exhibition, all the selves; what would they tell you?
a simple exploration and prompt
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 17/01/2026
Get to the question behind the question, get to the heart of the thing open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #octaviabutler #inspiration
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Who and what inspires you? It's still a new(ish) year. Let's feed the creative good by initiating change.
a little experiment in questions, a little writing, a simple post to kick off week 3 in a creative new way
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 09/01/2026
Designing a new way to see, for writers and artists open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writingprompt #letsgo #walkforpeace #designthinkingforpeoplewhoarealreadycreative
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Designing a new way to see, for writers and artists
Creative Resilience Week 2: What are your possibilities? Curiosity is the practice and a week-long prompt
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 01/01/2026
A new year, a new opportunity to fail well as artists and writers. “It’s the most awkward and uncomfortable space, which is why it’s the most instructional ...” www.jenknox.net/p/a-new-year... #letsdothis #writesky #5amwritersclub
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A new year, a new opportunity to fail well as artists and writers
Let's go for it! 52 weeks of creative momentum, starting now
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 25/12/2025
On being (or feeling) alone - a short holiday offering Love to all today #writesky #holidays #connection open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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On being (or feeling) alone
a short bonus offering for those who need this message
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 23/12/2025
We can’t force the flower to bloom. We can’t make water boil. We can’t [insert your cliche]. We can, however, get good at the art of patience. open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #patienceandcreativity #resilientcreative
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Why patience is the often the most important creative practice
Patience = Confidence in 2026
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 18/12/2025
The frequency of you and your creative works open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/... #5amwritersclub #amwriting #writesky #booksky
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The frequency of you and your creative works
finding the rhythm to our writing (and lives)
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 12/12/2025
No need to wait for the right time. You can make your own time, space, and community. #5amwritersclub #writesky #residencies open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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No need to wait for the right time. You can make your own time, space, and community.
the willingness to keep going
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 06/12/2025
Get messy with it, writers #nonadvice #5amwritersclub #at9am #writesky #booksky open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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Get messy with it, writers
let your process be what it is
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 29/11/2025
We quit what we're supposed to quit. Let's quit something, so we can refocus. www.jenknox.net/p/we-quit-wh...
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We quit what we're supposed to quit. Let's quit something, so we can refocus.
“If you surrender to the air, you can ride it.” - Toni Morrison
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 21/11/2025
Let's see what happens if we try to give a little more as writers, as people #5amwriterclub #writesky #gratitude open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/...
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Let's see what happens if we try to give a little more as writers, people
a gratitude post: to offer flowers to those we've learned from, gained from, and never overtly recognized
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 13/11/2025
Just a light prompt www.jenknox.net/p/just-a-lig... #5amwritersclub #writesky #writeskyprompts
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Just a light prompt
and meditation on weather
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 06/11/2025
Allowing moments of pleasure and pause to reset your creative energy #meditation #writesky #creativevisualization www.jenknox.net/p/allowing-m...
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Allowing moments of pleasure and pause to reset your creative energy
because we have enough pain and pressure
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 31/10/2025
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” —Ursula K. Le Guin www.jenknox.net #5amwritersclub #writing #writesky #booksky
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 24/10/2025
VICTORIA C. WOODHULL gave me a novel (or two) worth of inspiration #grateful #novelnews #5amwritersclub #writesky www.jenknox.net/p/victoria-c...
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VICTORIA C. WOODHULL gave me a novel.
& I'm grateful for it
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 14/10/2025
Pushing past the pain doesn’t work. Ignoring it doesn’t work. So what do we do when we’re in considerable pain? Blinding pain? Pain that distracts us from living our lives? How do we balance the healing journey with equal parts strength and grace? www.jenknox.net/p/on-pain-po... #5amwritersclub
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On pain points and the clarity we gain when we find the right release
when the points dissolve and we find all that we're looking for and more
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 09/10/2025
Breathing deep as we run; as artists we reclaim hope by offering it www.jenknox.net/p/breathing-...
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Breathing deep as we run; as artists we reclaim hope by offering it
Let’s talk about it … Life can seem hard, even impossible at times.
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Mark Reep @pirateradioedit.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Last #Monday we had an appt in #Buffalo, and afterward M said y'know, it's not far to #NiagaraFalls, you guys wanna go? Happily I'd brought my little #NikonCoolpix. Busy week since, first look this morning, here's one #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotoOfTheDay #PhotoHour #EastCoastKin #waterfall
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 15/09/2025
Don’t forget how much impact you can have simply by believing in another’s potential. Your belief just might lead to their belief in yet another. #5amwritersclub #writesky tinyurl.com/mah8tatv
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Teaching as a creative act and trusting as a creative offering
a short personal story and an invitation
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 06/09/2025
The art of sharing just enough (in writing, in conversation, in life) www.jenknox.net/p/small-beau... #amwriting #5amwritersclub #writesky #scenes
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The art of sharing just enough
avoiding overwriting while still building rich scenes
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Jen Knox @www.jenknox.net · 30/08/2025
I learned this exercise from a fellow teacher at Insight Timer, and I’ve since shared it with wayward writers, leadership students who are trying to figure out what they want to do in the world, and friends who are decent people at a loss. #5amwritersclub #wriesky www.jenknox.net/p/portraits-...
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A portrait of everyday resilience for those who feel unsure what to do or say next
& a simple exercise
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