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Our Goods are Our Dreams and Our Dreams are Our Goods

sweet berries buried

far beneath

the stones that feel immovable

with one’s own strength

confuse confound conflate

To each’s own

a treasure’s known

so let our wild spirits roam

-Saschia Jayne Johnson

Good Morning from Jayne.Press

It’s fall

Small talk: We have a Nor’Easter pending.

Gentle Reminder: I hope today you give yourself grace for being a full on human.

Yesterday’s post was a reminder that your published book isn’t the finish line. It’s just one more piece of the process that worth celebrating.

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Contentment

You rolled off my sacred tongue and into some place.

where there’s few passing cars and trees

lots of trees.

Who am I to find you where you are?

What am I to do when I seek you?

I’m content in the comfort of my own writing chair

illuminated by the words scrolling across the screen.

And if I get there,

what’s to become of this corner

where my imagination can run free?

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

I had to Experience Publishing my Novel

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

I didn’t see how or when I’d ever finished my first novel, but somehow, I managed to make it to the end. It was a humbling experience that I needed to have. It had to happen because for some reason it was my finish line, but when a writer publishes a book, it’s not the finish line. The finish line is either death or the place of your choosing. Don’t get me wrong, publishing your work is something worth celebrating! The thing is if you plan to publish novelssss, it’s just one piece of a potentially lifelong process. Now that the ghost of my unpublished novel is done nipping at my heels, I can get back to being a writer.

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“For some of us the need to write is so profound that if we can’t do it we are quite miserable.” –Dinitia Smith

It’s not that I write to avoid being miserable. I enjoy writing very much. I deeply enjoy returning to these two novels I’ve been working on. I can’t share much about them yet, but they really are the highlight of my writing ritual. I can just dive into these worlds and play. That makes it sound like an escape, but I enjoy being alive more now than ever. So it’s not the escape either.

So, what makes me write every day?

The ritual of it. At first, I wrote for a million other reasons, but when it comes down to it, I just want to write novels. The question is “How bad do you want it?” I want it bad enough to sit at the computer for 5 hours a day to work on it. That’s a really boring answer but the truth is often unremarkable.

I mean that’s not all, writing has other benefits: understanding myself better, understanding my fellow man better, tweaking my belief system, and a million other reasons that draw me in. Sometimes the draw is a connection to those who have passed through my life and left a mark.

What makes you write?

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My Romance with Writing

It’s not just some lover who came

and left me empty

standing at the edge of the world.

It’s something else entirely.

My romance is a mystery

cloaked with a veil,

an obsession that’s never satiated, and a

string of words that must

kiss the lips of my imagination

or no one will ever know what it is to be human.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

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