Jolene Poulin
Bio
I'm an amateur writer with an interest in fiction and general story telling.
Stories (26/0)
No plot? No problem! A review
I wrote a 53,000 word novel in a month by following the steps outlined in No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty. I first heard of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) a couple years ago but it wasn't until this year that I learned its creator wrote a book. I tried NaNoWriMo last year without a guide and failed miserably at meeting the word count. I was eager to write and ready to get my story on the page for the first week, and then I slowed down and writing became less of a priority. I did not meet the 50,000 word goal.
By Jolene Poulin3 months ago in Motivation
Squirrel
I’m standing in the field, only this time it’s spring. There’s small green shoots all over the place making their way through last year’s dead growth. The breeze flicks my hair across my face and the sun warms my bare toes. There are fluffy clouds slowly making their way across the sky.
By Jolene Poulin4 months ago in Fiction
Reading "Better Than Before" as a Rebel
Being a rebel is hard. If you don't know what that means, or you don't know if you're a rebel, I suggest you pause here, take the "Four Tendencies Quiz" here, and then come back. The quiz takes three minutes to take and revealed so much about me to myself.
By Jolene Poulin4 months ago in Beat
Why I didn't finish "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes
I've been in a reading slump. I have five books on the go with no desire to finish any of them. I enjoy all of them, don't get me wrong, but I'm simply not in the mood to read to the end of a book. I thought reading a short, simple book from start to finish would break my slump.
By Jolene Poulin4 months ago in 01
The Perception of a Scream
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. What they don’t mention is that you can see a scream in space. It’s so cold and there are no particles moving that when someone screams, you see it like a fog in winter. You see the moisture leaving their body and you see the particles moving from their voice. But there’s no air to carry the scream, so you can’t hear it. You can only see it.
By Jolene Poulin7 months ago in Fiction
