: About Me

Jen Nipps a freelance writer/jewelry maker/creativity expert/medical transcriptionist in south-central Oklahoma. The medical transcription is only to pay the bills until writing starts paying well.

Jen is a regular columnist for the OWFI Report, the newsletter for the Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc. She has had an article published on WritingForDollars ("10 Tips for Getting Organized") and has another forthcoming.

Check out her websites at www.jenifernipps.com and www.theideapocket.com.

My passion is ...

writing, creativity

I know too much about ...

medical transcription

My parents always told me ...

If it is to be, it's up to me.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a teacher or a writer.

My favorite memory ...

How can I choose one?

Why I write ...

I get grumpy if I don't write and if I have a hard time dealing with me, I can't imagine anyone else doing it.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Listening: local radio station; reading: "Gideon" by Jacquelyn Frank; watching: nothing, but plan on Project Runway tonight.

My first job ...

secretary in the School of Education at the local college.

My best moment ...

Winning my first first place in May.

My inspiration ...

Nature, life, music...

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Life

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Life isn't always pretty. It rarely fits into the straight lines that writing requires. But you live it and experience it anyway. Largely because you don't have a choice. And if you're lucky, you can find some good material to write about in the process of living. It seems as though many famous writers in history were alcoholics, drug addicts, or mentally ill. Were they writers because of their problems or in spite of them? To hear Stephen King tell it, they were writers in spite of their problems. He would know. He lived through a lot of it himself. In his book ON WRITING, he even goes so...

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