HeyJaredWorth of a Word
A GenX novelist on faith, culture, and writing relationships. I'm an obsessive reader and bookpusher who enjoys reading other writers’ beautiful words well-written. I publish under the GlasIncPress imprint. Subscribe for podcasts & episodic fiction.
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Come Inside My Novel 2.0 (opens the original)
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Come Inside My Novel (opens the original)
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Welcome to bikeable Boise! Before two of them have to flee the country, Anna, Cassidy, and Charlie, my main characters, visit many of Boise’s most iconic locations, The Central Rim Neighborhood, The Boise Depot, and a crucial scene takes place at one of Boise’s most popular restaurant rows, on 8th Street…<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PSWU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubl
Tuesday Tango (on a Friday): Hope In A Can (opens the original)
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As I write this, I’m overwhelmed by 9/11 videos and articles. I will never forget, while I stood with my one-year-old on my hip and my four-year-old played in the next room, watching the twin towers come down live, on television, accompanied by on-air silence—the speechless gaping of the newscasters.I remember how people raced to help, regardless of the discomfort or mortal danger they might face, how the country came together. I remember politicians and statesmen acting like full-grown, serious
Tuesday Tango: Wonders Of Old (opens the original)
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Time And Lighthouses (opens the original)
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Just coming off a string of gloriously incandescent days at the Oregon Coast, and I can’t stop thinking about the sea and how much I love my family, but I’m also considering time—how we spend it, use it, and how we waste it.“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Marthe Troly-CurtinWhile I’m old enough to consider time simply staring at the sea time well-spent, I had a number of young adults with me on this trip, so we tried to make the most of what the area had to offer. One morning, we ve
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