onedeadplotbunny | Intro

Hullo, I'm Jenna and I've been a member of this comm for a year. I've been making up stories for as long as I can remember and I decided To Be A Writer when I was nine. It took a while to actually get 'er done: I wrote a lot of first chapters for a long time, and then discovered fanfic back in the late '90s, which not only got me through some tough times but also taught me how to write for an audience. I published my first novel in 2007 and I've got three more novels and about two dozen short stories out now.

Back in 2011 I lost my job of ten years, and while I looked for a new one I decided to treat writing as my full-time job as much as possible. I hoped that the dedication and time I could put into writing would help keep me afloat. Things...did not go as planned.

I've been kind of having a crisis of faith about this whole writing thing, because if the only thing I've wanted to be my whole life doesn't work, then what? So I've been trying to find some other avenues--I mean, the important thing is to make a living as a writer, and if it's not as a novelist then there are other things to try. To that end, I'm trying to finish a pilot to submit to an episodic writing fellowship with the Sundance Institute, and this may be the year I finally finish the biopic screenplay I've been working on, off-and-on, mostly off, for the last eight years.

Of course, that said I should also mention that one of my main goals for the year is to finish the four trunk novels that have been waiting for me to edit them and finally get them submitted somewhere. Definitely with a different publisher, as I've pretty much lost faith in my current one too, and possibly under a different pseudonym. I feel like I need to start fresh every way I can.

And if that doesn't work, well, hell, maybe it is me.