Ask the Author: Jessica Shortall
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Jessica Shortall
Darrow and Sevro from the Red Rising Trilogy. A bromance full of snark, big personalities, and genuine affection and loyalty. I love the series.
Jessica Shortall
I am an avid reader and consumer of news, history, and popular culture. My brain is always fizzing, trying to make connections between the things I've read over the years. Usually one of those connections - say, between something I experienced while serving in the Peace Corps and a way I'm trying to verbalize current political events - will spark, and I'll feel compelled to sit down and write.
Jessica Shortall
I try to learn when to get up and walk away from my keyboard. It'll sound crazy, but when I get blocked, often a solution presents itself in a dream overnight.
Jessica Shortall
I go with Anne Lamott's advice: just start writing, shitty first draft and all. And be brutally honest and brutally yourself. For me, there's no other way to write.
Jessica Shortall
I'm currently researching and writing my first TED talk - for TEDxSMU in Dallas - on the state of American maternity leave.
Jessica Shortall
When I was getting ready to go back to work after my son was born, I was sure that there must be a comprehensive, practical, and supportive book to take the anxiety out of pumping breastmilk while working and traveling. There wasn't, and I was frustrated that every woman has to do this flying blind.
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