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Where you can find my writing now...my first post is about Rap Beef and Motherhood
Hello my people, I'm writing this blog because I'm starting a new venture with my friend, Yvette, titled Creative Communion. This is a...
writerjns
May 9, 20241 min read
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ELEVATE Cover Art Convo
Here is the conversation I had with Lizzie Brown, the cover artist for ELEVATE (the Yellow Arrow Journal issue that I am a guest editor for)
writerjns
Apr 25, 20241 min read
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Validation & 20 Year Anniversary
20 years ago I self-published my first book, Silent Teardrops. I was 25 and just wanted to see my words in print. I also wanted to hear...
writerjns
Feb 22, 20242 min read
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I’m a Guest Editor…
I'm honored to share that I am the guest editor for Yellow Arrow Journal's upcoming issue. The theme, chosen by yours truly, is Elevate.
writerjns
Feb 1, 20241 min read
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When you're in the mood but not really...
What do you do when you're in the mood but not really? Honestly, I'm in the mood a little bit as I write this but then again, not all the...
writerjns
Dec 19, 20232 min read
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Rest & Intuition
Rest & Intuition is about leaving my job, the book Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey and how my intuition is pushing me forward.
writerjns
Aug 14, 20232 min read
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It Is What It Is!
The tears were already welling in my eyes as I handed the lady my prescription. And it only took seconds for them to come flowing before...
writerjns
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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What is Success?
How I measure success compared to how someone else looks at it is likely different. For me money isn't the sole determinant of success...
writerjns
May 19, 20231 min read
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Space & Mothering
Space & Mothering is about how finding time to write and the act of writing itself is tied to Jennifer's new life of being a mother.
writerjns
Apr 14, 20232 min read
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Patience, writing & an 18 month old
This blog shares insights from a new first time mom about being a mother, a writer and everything in between.
writerjns
Mar 6, 20233 min read
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12 months of writing
12 months of writing is the intro blog for the next year of exploration for Jennifer N. Shannon aka writerjns.
writerjns
Feb 5, 20232 min read
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Transformation...
There are many words I can use to describe 2021—amazing, transitional, joyful, emotional, chaotic, beautiful—but the word that has been a...
writerjns
Dec 29, 20212 min read
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2021 update with beachboyfresh
Happy New Year! Take a look at this live and in-person DreamLiving video that BeachBoyFresh and I created. It shares an update for 2021...
writerjns
Jan 3, 20211 min read
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Surrendering...
On December 31, 2019, I posted below on my FaceBook Author Page: Almost 365 days later, I reflected on this post and how my life has...
writerjns
Dec 28, 20202 min read
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What is your purpose?
It has been eight months of being unemployed, quarantined and living in a country with social unrest. Most people are mentally exhausted....
writerjns
Nov 6, 20201 min read
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What is there to celebrate?
We are nine months into 2020 and for me it has had moments of bliss and headaches. I'm sure some of you feel the same way. Below is a...
writerjns
Sep 11, 20202 min read
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Self-portrait
These blogs that I've written over the past few months (this is number 14) are different from my blogs of years before. Now my approach...
writerjns
Jul 10, 20202 min read
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"Great" and "sucks" are almost the same, right?
Sometimes I can't believe that we are half way through 2020. I won't list all of the craziness that has happened to me but it's been a...
writerjns
Jun 26, 20202 min read
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