Jenelle Carter

Stories by Jenelle Carter on Medium Jun 5, 2021

Writing is hard

Writing is hard.This is something that I was aware of before beginning this newsletter practice, but I’m finding that…

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Stories by Jenelle Carter on Medium Jun 5, 2021

Deferred happiness

This past October my parents left for what turned out to be a month to take care of my grandma. Admittedly, I was…

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Stories by Jenelle Carter on Medium Jun 4, 2021

3 years post-concussion

Today is February 5th, which I guess means it’s time for my annual post-concussion update. It has now been 3130 days…

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Stories by Jenelle Carter on Medium Jun 3, 2021

Today’s writing realities

This is my fourth attempt at writing a newsletter today. After spending twenty or thirty minutes on three separate…

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Stories by Jenelle Carter on Medium Jun 3, 2021

Don’t get ahead of yourself in the early stages

When I was in the early stages of considering an email newsletter I was overwhelmed by the process. I spent hours…

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Stories by Jenelle Carter on Medium Apr 5, 2021

An unintended break from newsletter writing

On September 22, 2020, I published my first newsletter. To start, I didn’t commit to any regular schedule, I just knew…

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Stories by Jenelle Carter on Medium Apr 3, 2021

The gift of invisibility

Jon Acuff, in his book Quitter: Closing the gap between your dream job & your day job, reflects on his first blog that…

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Stories by Jenelle Carter on Medium Mar 26, 2021

A day without any to-dos

Yesterday was a pretty rough day for me. Over the past 8+ years, I’ve had a lot of pretty rough days and a lot of very…

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