Author, RADICALS (Library Tales, Dec 26) & AT WORK (2027, Cornerstone Press - University of Wisconsin; Creativity & Mindset Coach; Founder, Unleash Creatives; dog mom; anti-extremist; a believer in the value of human stories. jenknox.com www.jenknox.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mpt6h7ervk2tDropping the artificial everything, getting back to the root https://substack.com/@jenknox/note/p-193700609?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=64z3d #5amwritersclub #writesky #writinginnotebooks04 Jul 2026 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpt6h7ervk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mokkzvvcxc2jHow to fail beautifully as a writer, as a person “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett https://www.jenknox.net/p/how-to-fail-beautifully-as-a-writer?r=64z3d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #writingwell #failingwell18 Jun 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokkzvvcxc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mnu6utr3is2iWriting about place. https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/round-on-the-ends-how-place-shapes?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=64z3d #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky09 Jun 2026 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnu6utr3is2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mnoui263qs2v"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson This beautiful little fawn was curled up next to my neighbor’s house this morning. #5amwritersclub #writesky07 Jun 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnoui263qs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mmyenmhkak2kSometimes the inner critic is right, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to her. https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/sometimes-the-inner-critic-was-right?r=64z3d&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #WritingAsSelfCare #WomenWriters #VictoriaWoodhull #InnerCritic #AuthorLife #BookMarketing #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction29 May 2026 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmyenmhkak2khttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mmjm5mpmus2uHave you ever come across your own words from the past, which you may or may not have fully understood, realizing they are exactly what you needed today? Republishing "Time Away" on my blog today https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/time-away?r=64z3d&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #flashfiction #5amwritersclub #writesky #unplannedpost #arcticocean23 May 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmjm5mpmus2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mm75jldnj22uCreative portals that lead to endless inspiration https://www.jenknox.net/p/how-writing-research-can-lead-to?r=64z3d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Cheers to finding your creative portals, #5amwritersclub #writesky #letswrite #theresilientcreative19 May 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm75jldnj22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mll4j7ukmk24Hello, #5amwritersclub! I was actually up at 4 this a.m. and wrote! Read up. #writesky https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/when-navigating-ambiguity-storytelling?r=64z3d&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web11 May 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mll4j7ukmk24https://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mkrx3r3bzk2pWhen I was growing up, I realized most of the authors I read were no longer living. Their characters and ideas, however, were very much alive inside me and other readers. And, to my young mind, I believed this to be magic. https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/when-writing-outlives-not-only-the?utm_source=direct&r=64z3d&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub ##writesky01 May 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrx3r3bzk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mjyn677bi22qWhy radical voices are necessary: a nod to those who are "before their time" https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/before-the-world-catches-up-why-radical?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer I’ve always been fascinated by people who sacrifice convention and its de facto safety in exchange for an unrelenting devotion #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #yokoono21 Apr 2026 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyn677bi22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mjc4vxpyxs2lHow birds dream and the myth of the ideal author platform https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/the-creative-coherence-problem?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer #5amwritersclub #freemeditation #scatteredenergy #writesky12 Apr 2026 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjc4vxpyxs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mj4xzvgmks2uIt's actually #5am, #5amwritersclub! I made it. “Music is a torch with which to see where beauty lies.” — Atahualpa Yupanqui In our creative resilience circle yesterday, we started to make a playlist. What music is keeping you going right now? https://www.jenknox.net/p/the-frequency-of-you-and-your-creative?utm_source=publication-search #writesky10 Apr 2026 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj4xzvgmks2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3minyytm2o22kWater is always heading toward its source. Whatever the pace and barriers, it gets there, eventually, even if it has to freeze or find itself surrounded by earth; even if it has to evaporate and rain down again, it is always moving, always.04 Apr 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3minyytm2o22khttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3milggltqpk2o“The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.” —Koun Yamada https://www.jenknox.net/p/finding-creative-clarity-at-the-start I have been doing all the things... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky03 Apr 2026 09:39 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3milggltqpk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mhfycanet22jCreative energy is everywhere at all times. https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/creative-energy-is-everywhere-lets?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=64z3d #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky19 Mar 2026 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhfycanet22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mgcs2bnqas2y“We understand reality in terms of interaction … how we interact with one another.” —Carlo Rovelli #5amwritersclub #writesky #radicals https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/those-who-did-it-anyway-and-how-we?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=64z3d05 Mar 2026 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgcs2bnqas2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mf7mxkdj7k2lPerhaps instead of taking a break or hiding out, we can recommit. https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/perhaps-instead-of-taking-a-break?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #compassionfatigue #writingprompt #5amwritersclub #meditation #miniworkshop19 Feb 2026 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf7mxkdj7k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3menzm25mmk2zWhat is performance art, and why should it matter to writers? https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/what-is-performance-art-and-why-should?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub #writesky #resilientcreative12 Feb 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3menzm25mmk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3me4bf67iwc2xOn the myriad ways we are asked to disappear and an argument for getting back to our humanness https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/on-the-myriad-ways-we-are-asked-disappear?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer #5amwritersclub #writesky #humannature05 Feb 2026 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3me4bf67iwc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mdn6rbayu22gWe need stories of powerful people to believe in ourselves today. But how to share them in fiction? And why? #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writesky #novelsky https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/writing-about-the-very-real-humans?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=64z3d30 Jan 2026 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdn6rbayu22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3md5xgtmip22aYour exhibition, all the selves; what would they tell you? https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/your-exhibition-all-the-selves-what?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub #imactuallyup #writesky #novelsky #cnfprompt #writingprompt24 Jan 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3md5xgtmip22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mcmkstubj22yGet to the question behind the question, get to the heart of the thing https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/happy-new-year-friends?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub #octaviabutler #inspiration17 Jan 2026 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcmkstubj22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mbydrs2rac2lDesigning a new way to see, for writers and artists https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/design-thinking-for-writers-and-artists?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub #writingprompt #letsgo #walkforpeace #designthinkingforpeoplewhoarealreadycreative09 Jan 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbydrs2rac2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mbec7dr3os2pA new year, a new opportunity to fail well as artists and writers. “It’s the most awkward and uncomfortable space, which is why it’s the most instructional ...” https://www.jenknox.net/p/a-new-year-a-new-opportunity-to-fail?r=64z3d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #letsdothis #writesky #5amwritersclub01 Jan 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbec7dr3os2phttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3masnsuq2zs2cOn being (or feeling) alone - a short holiday offering Love to all today #writesky #holidays #connection https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/on-being-or-feeling-alone?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer25 Dec 2025 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3masnsuq2zs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3manpwlxnu22mWe can’t force the flower to bloom. We can’t make water boil. We can’t [insert your cliche]. We can, however, get good at the art of patience. https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/patience-confidence-in-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub #writesky #booksky #patienceandcreativity #resilientcreative23 Dec 2025 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3manpwlxnu22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3mab255eeb22jThe frequency of you and your creative works https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/the-frequency-of-you-and-your-creative?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #5amwritersclub #amwriting #writesky #booksky18 Dec 2025 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mab255eeb22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3m7ryccsdnk2pNo need to wait for the right time. You can make your own time, space, and community. #5amwritersclub #writesky #residencies https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/no-need-to-wait-for-the-right-time?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web12 Dec 2025 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ryccsdnk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3m7d7syweps24Get messy with it, writers #nonadvice #5amwritersclub #at9am #writesky #booksky https://open.substack.com/pub/jenknox/p/get-messy-with-it-writers?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web06 Dec 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7d7syweps24https://bsky.app/profile/www.jenknox.net/post/3m6rrkbyark2dWe quit what we're supposed to quit. Let's quit something, so we can refocus. https://www.jenknox.net/p/we-quit-what-were-supposed-to-quit?r=64z3d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false29 Nov 2025 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:vg4tfh4g4leplxo7knzz3vvm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6rrkbyark2d