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Jen Violi

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April 25, 2018 by Jen Violi

Then you’ve come to the right place, to get to the right place! Just click on the button for some unbuttoned stories.   A little more scoop: I’ve started a new Patreon page and will be posting piping hot writing, tender morsels of my memoir-in-progress, and more over there. Please come on over! I can’t wait for you to meet and relax in my story sanctuary. Plus, treats await you.

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Studies in Silence #1: Listening isn’t Reacting.

January 10, 2018 by Jen Violi

I’m studying silence right now, or maybe it’s studying me. Schooling me. Honing me. Regardless, I’m paying attention to silence. How I crave it. How I loathe it. What fear it can hold. What balm it can offer. What wisdom floats in its underwater caverns. I’m committed to silence because as a writer, editor, and mentor, I’m committed to using my true voice and to supporting others in using theirs.

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Vinegar and Frosting Don’t Mix

October 8, 2017 by Jen Violi

So I made this cake last Sunday to share with the Joy Search Party gathering in my apartment on Monday. It was a white cake with chocolate chips, and the first thing I’d baked since the car accident I was in several weeks ago. This felt like major progress since I’d been languishing physically, mentally, and emotionally since then. Or let’s be honest. Some of the languishing was not new.

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All the Way Here

August 25, 2017 by Jen Violi

As an aside, I mentioned the little toe on my right foot to Amy, my ND, at our appointment two weeks ago. She was about to do cranial sacral work on me, and I’d shared what seemed pertinent within my body, mind, and heart. It didn’t actually seem like much, which is funny to me now. When Amy asked if there was anything else I wanted her to know about,

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If You’re Not Having Fun, You’re Doing It Wrong

January 16, 2017 by Jen Violi

Discover the Book You’re Meant to Write Preview #4 The serious part of me will never go undernourished. I mean really, I can put the ponder in ponderous. I can stew for hours with life mysteries, with grief, angst, and a don’t-fuck-with-me kind of reverence for EVERYTHING. Especially now. What to be serious about first, you know? Thank goddess that’s not the only part of me. There’s another part, one

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You Don’t Have to Carry the Heavy Thing by Yourself

January 13, 2017 by Jen Violi

On heavy things like unwritten books and headboards trapped in hallways. Welcome to: Discover the Book You’re Meant to Write Preview #3 (see “The Book is Not the Point; It’s the Entry Point” to explain what I’m offering here).  I will start with the moral of this story, which is: you don’t have to carry the heavy thing by yourself. Please be aware that this is also a how to story, as in, how to

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Happy Endings Make Terrible Compost

January 10, 2017 by Jen Violi

Discover the Book You’re Meant to Write Preview #2   Many people know me for my hopefulness, my spirit of renewal, and for always looking on the bright side. Popular thought holds that I may even be part unicorn. Yes, glitter might run through my veins. What you also need to know is that my bright outlook relies on a murky dark side. And this: dark fertilizes light. Endings fertilize beginnings.

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The Book Is Not the Point: It’s the Entry Point

January 8, 2017 by Jen Violi

Discover the Book You’re Meant to Write Preview #1: The Book Is Not the Point   Let’s just get this out of the way: I don’t care if you write a book. I’m not supposed to say that. In fact, I’ve been told I’m supposed to build my business on the fact that I help people to finish their books. But when I think about what matters deeply to me—and in these

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I Want My Deposit: Writing & Return on Investment

October 14, 2016 by Jen Violi

This week, I got a much-anticipated check in the mail. My deposit from the apartment, which, up until three weeks ago, I lived in for seven years. When I opened it, I thought I might cry, or confetti might drop, or a gilded mermaid fountain might rise from the carpet in my new living room. But you know, it wasn’t all that exciting. Which totally surprised me. Of course this,

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Hold the Place Where it Hurts

July 15, 2016 by Jen Violi

This afternoon a neighbor came by to bring me flowers, and I had a panic attack. I was sitting in my grandma’s old La-Z-Boy, editing a manuscript, when the screen door rattled with repeated knocks. A pause, and more loud knocks. On the main door now. I almost jumped out of my skin and left it there on the recliner while my spirit slipped out the window and up into the

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About Jen Violi

Jen Violi is the author of Putting Makeup on Dead People, a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book, and finalist for the Oregon Book Awards. As a mentor, editor, and facilitator, Jen helps writers unleash the stories they’re meant to tell, from blogs to websites to award winning books. Find sanctuary for your story.

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