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Jacquelyn Sill

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Death. Infidelity. Public humiliation. In the aftermath, the future looked pretty bleak, but somewhere in this terrible mess--there had to be goodness. Life after death. Love after betrayal. Beauty from ashes.

After living for a few years in the land between what had happened and what was yet to come, Jacquelyn and her husband, David relocated from an agricultural town in Arizona to their new home in Southern California. They returned to the place she and her husband, of nearly three decades, call home.

Jacquelyn writes nearly every day, stretching herself between fiction, memoir blogging, and collegiate creative writing classes. Kharis Publishing released her fictional manuscript, Where the Water Rages, a novel in October 2016.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jacquelyn Sill Not very well. Ha!
I do an exercise every morning, or as close to every morning as I can get, that's called "Three Pages" where I write freehand and g…moreNot very well. Ha!
I do an exercise every morning, or as close to every morning as I can get, that's called "Three Pages" where I write freehand and get rid of the junk in my head. Usually, it's my own junk that's blocking the process. The concerns I carry tend to be about what others will think of me.
I have to say, one of the MOST freeing areas for disregarding what others think has been having a public failure. Having your worst exposed and announced definitely gives you a newfound freedom. It's been a reminder to me to keep living transparently. Now, I am who I am in public, in my home, and behind the keyboard. I wouldn't have it any other way, and I am thankful for all that happened to get me to this place. (less)

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Jacquelyn Sill We were made in the image of the Creator, and the wonderful thing about that is that we all inherited a dominant creation gene as we were formed. For …moreWe were made in the image of the Creator, and the wonderful thing about that is that we all inherited a dominant creation gene as we were formed. For me, the most satisfying part of writing is what happens while I am writing. Time and again, for years, I have felt my fingers move across the keyboard and I've read things I've written that I didn't even realize were inside my heart. I love discovering what is going to happen. There have been more surprises in my writing than plot plans! (less)

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I don’t know entirely what the hell happened between me and blogging, but after a long break-up, we’re talking about getting back together. In many ways, this is the conversation; I’m having it with the keyboard and I’m having it with you. Honestly, this is all pouring out of me so quickly, maybe I’ll give… Continue reading I’m Back! I think. Read more of this blog post »

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I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations

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“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”
― Mark Twain

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“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.”
― Mark Twain