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Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolCrafting the Best, Beautiful, Greatest Novel Requires a Reckoning: With YourselfWelcome into Flight School:Save the dates: July 31st & Aug. 14th at 9:00 a.m. PST(đŚââŹFree for subscribers. Find your code in the footer of this email) What: A two-part live conversation with me and my co-teacher, Becky Ellis. We are both memoirists and fiction writers and will share what have we learned about perseverance and success, and discuss how memoir and the novel are the same. Plus, we want to hear from you. Bring your challenges and concerns about your writing journey to the conversation. Weâre here to support you. ...2025-07-2408 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolBrutal Convergence from the Master of Story Escalation: Flannery O'ConnorWelcome to Flight School:Itâs time to take a deep dive on âEverything That Rises Must Converge.â If you havenât read it, click the link, read, and come on back. If you have, letâs continue. âEverythingâ is one of the last stories Flannery O'Connor completed before her death and emerges from a tumultuous period in American history. The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 mandated school desegregation, and by the early 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement was gaining powerful, violent momentum. Closer to home, O'Connor battled lupus, a disease that...2025-07-1606 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolWeek Four: We are Made to Sufferâand be RestoredHi, and welcome to Week Four: This is the mid-point of the challengeâtwenty-one days to go. From the live conversation, here are some major revelations, a bomb breakthrough, and a wrestling match with AI:Jill's Profound Truth: "If I don't tell my story, somebody else will and they'll get it wrong." The line of the entire challengeâthe recognition that avoiding our truth doesn't make it disappear, it just hands the narrative to someone else.Bridget's Parameter Victory: 1,000 words a day. Not overwhelming, just "puke it out" and chec...2025-06-2550 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolIf You're Not Interesting? Who is?Welcome to Flight School:Our first live meeting was packed with early risers ready to talk about process and stay inspired through connection and community. The Universal Struggles Time emerged as our collective nemesis and we learned the solution isn't finding more hoursâit's claiming the quiet ones. Early mornings from 4:30 to 7:30 are the most fruitful of all. The trick? Set boundaries with technology and resist the midnight Netflix traps.Perfectionism also was called out as as enemy. Get it good, get it close enough, then keep moving forward.Re...2025-06-0829 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolFlannery O'Connor's Pig Parlor Prophecy: When Smugness Meets Its MirrorWelcome to Flight School and the promised series of teachings on the remarkable Flannery OâConnor. If you are a serious creative writer, OâConnor is a teacher who continues to educate and illuminate us sixty years after her death. Her teaching is in the writing itself for âthose who have eyes to see.â To get the most out of this teaching, read the story first. You wonât regret it. The Last Shall March First"Until the sun slipped finally behind the tree line, Mrs. Turpin remained there with her gaze bent...2025-05-2110 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolThe Summer Surge ChallengeHi Flight Schoolerâs: Welcome to our second annual summer writing challenge: The Summer Surge.When: The first week of June to the middle of July (June 4th is our launch date, with our first Zoom at 9:00 a.m. PST) What: A six-week intensive writing challenge with daily accountability and bi-weekly live Zoom sessions Why: Because summer shouldn't mean your writing takes a vacationđŚâ⏠This Summer, Don't Just Dream It â Write ItSummer often brings disruption to our writing routines. Kids are home, vacations beckon, and the longer days...2025-05-1402 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolFlannery O'Connor: Writing Against the Tide"Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it," Flannery O'Connor said and silenced a room of NY intellectuals. This Exclusive Writing Lab explores how a sharp-witted Georgian created literature that still unsettles readers sixty years after her death. Welcome into Flight School:Before we get started, Iâd like to announce:The Second Annual Get-it-Done Summer Challenge When: June 1 to July 15. What: Six week challenge with daily interaction and bi-weekly live Zoom calls. Why: This challenge, like all the Flight School challenges, is designed to...2025-05-0512 min
The Discerning Mother#12 | Trusting Your Instincts in Birth and Motherhood: A Conversation with Jennifer LauckIn this powerful episode of The Discerning Mother, Brigid Tebaldi is joined by author and speaker, Jennifer Lauck, as they discuss the importance of trusting your instincts during pregnancy, birth, and beyond. Jennifer shares the deeply personal journey of her own birth experiences and how the medical system failed to honor her intuition. From the overwhelming pressure of the hospital system to the struggles of advocating for yourself as a mother, this conversation will resonate with any woman navigating her own motherhood journey.
Jennifer and I discuss her book "Show Me the Way" and how her own...2025-04-221h 08
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolThe Accidental Teacher: How a Meadow Conversation Changed My LifeWelcome into Flight School:âYou would make a wonderful teacher,â she said. She being a spiritual guru in the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Gray hair slicked back into a bun, deep red robes worked over a white cotton blouse, and black cotton pants. She was in her late fifties, I think. So exotic. So mysterious. We sat in a meadow, this guru and I, surrounded by tall grasses and wildflowers. Her on a cushion. Me on my knees in the dirt. A true supplicant. Tiny white butterflies flitted about in t...2025-04-1805 min
Whole HumanBlackbird with Jennifer LauckAuthor and mother, Jennifer Lauck shares her story beginning with her tumultuous childhood. From being adopted and witnessing the deaths of her newly found parents, to her experience with the church of scientology, to finding fame as a New York Times best selling author, Jennifer's story is one of fast paced ups and downs. Now 62, listen as she shares years of hard-earned wisdom relating to the mercy of God. 2025-02-091h 21
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolFrom Resistance to Renaissance:Welcome into Flight School:I hope you enjoy watching this rich, insightful, touching conversation of the six-week Light Keeperâs Challenge. I created the Light Keeperâs Challenge to help myself and others shine the light on our creative lives amidst darkening days and a flurry of festivities. I was able to finish a draft of my novel, read the whole of it and set my revision plan. I also finished The Summer of â72. All the chapters now in and posted with a surprising up-twist in the final chapter not even I saw coming. Six...2024-12-1553 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolThe Scene That Sees YouHi and welcome into Flight School:There's a moment in writing when the world cracks open. Not with the thunderous drama of revelation, but with the quiet gasp of recognition. As a New York Times bestselling author and writing teacher these two decades, I've witnessed this countless times - writers pause mid-sentence, their voices catch, and tears welling up as they read work they themselves created."How does this happen?" they ask, bewildered. "I wrote this. I know this story. I didn't weep when I created it... so why now?"The quiet gift...2024-12-1002 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolThe Sacred Pain of Creative Growth: A Writer's JourneyWelcome into Flight School: There's a moment in every writer's journey when the fantasy of being an author collides with the reality of becoming one. It's like stepping into a cathedral of creativity where the stained glass windows are made of your own vulnerabilities, each pane illuminating a different shade of your creative truth.The Evolution of Artistic GrowthThe path from aspiring writer to published author isn't a sprintâit's a carefully orchestrated marathon. As Ernest Hemingway once noted, "The first draft of anything is garbage." But what happens after that first dr...2024-12-0311 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolTurn Holiday Chaos into Creative Gold: A Writer's "Secret Weapon"Welcome into Flight School:The holiday season arrives like clockwork, beginning with Thanksgiving's starting pistol that sends us racing toward our families. While these gatherings bring joy and connection, they can also threaten to dim the creative light we've worked so hard to maintain in our Light Keepers Challenge. What if this year could be different? What if your writing practice could actually enhanceârather than compete withâyour holiday experience?Your Family GatheringâA Writer's LaboratoryInstead of seeing family time as an interruption to your writing, consider it your personal writer's labora...2024-11-2608 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolThe Geography of HealingWelcome into Flight School: Through these recent chapters of The Summer of '72, first Lungs and now Closing the Gates, we've witnessed how true healing often worksânot as a single dramatic moment, but as a carefully charted journey through the body's own wisdom.The First Landmark: Breathe and ReleaseWhen Abrams first "unfolded" me, I discovered that my own healing began with oxygen. Like mountain climbers adjusting to altitude, we must take in air before we can climb higher. Those first needle pricks weren't just about physical pain I experienced in the pa...2024-11-1706 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolThe Light-Keeper's ChallengeThe Light-Keeper's Challenge: A Creative Anchor When the holiday season threatens to dim your creative light, Flight School offers soul-level sustenance for your writing practice. Join me and a community of dedicated writers as we maintain our creative connection during the year's most challenging season.Save the Dates: November 1 - December 15* Daily creative touchstones to keep your writing flame burning* Soul-nurturing writing tips and insights that go beyond craft* A supportive community of fellow truth-seekers maintaining their creative practice* Intimate glimpses into my own journey as I...2024-10-2801 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolFrom Chaos to Clarity: Structuring Your Life StoryWelcome into Flight School:On a structure chart The Summer of â72 has passed the inciting incident or the moment when the heroâs journey changes due to a shocking incident that creates chaos: Attack on Rick after he made Josephine throw up. Weâve also hopped the first plot point when the hero makes a decision: After the car wreck, Jennifer resolves to go it alone and fix something within herself that is broken. Summer now moves into First Level Response which shows the hero using the same strategies, in different forms, from Part One. I...2024-09-0405 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolShattered Dreams, Reforged Purpose: A Literary CrucibleHi Flyers:âYou can be as mad as a dog at the ways things went, you can swear and curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.â ~Captain Mikeâs death speech in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button I was as mad as a dog. I swore. I cursed the fates. It wasnât a battle on the high seas but the rejection of a novel I felt sure would sell. Hereâs what the powers that be at over two dozen major publishing...2024-08-0205 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolGet Your Creative Writing Done!Welcome back:âŚevery author attests to the two states of writingâinspiration and waiting for inspiration. These words from the chapter titled A Novel of Your Own (I) of 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley become the overarching truth for our ten week âGet it Done" Challenge that launched July 1. Rather than waiting, we create inspiration through accountability.What you have here is a collective of writers who have detailed their project, set word count goals and check in each day. Working on what I hope is the final...2024-07-1852 min
Walk Through Grief with GraceCreativity: How We Rise from the Ashes of Loss Community RoundtableIt cannot be stressed enough how powerful it can be to create after a loss, and this episode is a testament to that power. Jenn sits down for a community roundtable conversation with Sandra Sa, Angela Apodaca, and Meg Streeter Lauck for an emotional and impactful conversation about how creating after the major losses in their life reignited a spark within them, both let go and connect further with their loved ones, and find joy and release on a deep level. If you feel stuck or down after a loss, this episode is for you. Let these incredible women...2024-02-2858 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolWhat to Give the Girl Who Has It All?A Behind the Scenes post that is also a scene-by-example, an invitation to be part of an international workshop, and the continuation of our Exclusive Writing Lab on writing sceneWelcome into Flight School: We have a live thread for paid subscribers coming this week. More on that in a moment. For now, a scene in about 550 words. Your task is simple: Can you spot the integration of the ingredients in the scene recipe card and tick them off? What to Give the Girl Who has Everything?The screen...2024-02-1006 min
Lit Lessons on Flight SchoolFlying Lesson #6An open mic post and free teaching on theme, why it matters and how applying yourself to the study of theme can take some of the sting out of your memoir writing. Welcome: Who cares about my story? My book? Me?If you are a writer of any form, you wouldnât be human if you didnât ask these questions. But as memoir writers, these questions infiltrate nearly every moment of our creative process. âWho cares? Who cares? Who cares?â we ask ourselves as we type away our most challenging lived experiences. Wha...2022-08-2809 min
Akron Roundtable PodcastJennifer Carlson, Ohio Department of Aging: Ohioâs vision: Be the best place to age in the nationPresentation Ohio is an aging state. Explore Ohioâs plan to take on ageism, eliminate disparities and inequities among older Ohioans, and create a state where Ohioans live longer, healthier lives with dignity and autonomy. Speaker Jennifer Carlson is the Ohio Department of Agingâs Assistant Director. In the role, she drives the development of innovative policy and programs to improve the health, wellness, and safety of older Ohioans. Carlson also serves as chief advisor to the departmentâs director, Ursel J. McElroy. For full event details and speaker bio visit: https://bit.ly/3x440Ft2022-06-0851 min
Lit Lessons on Flight Schoolđ§ Unforgettable Characters: A Memoir Writer's Secret WeaponWelcome into Flight School:Every person in your story deserves careful attention, even those who appear only briefly. The best writers know this - they make every character memorable through precise, thoughtful description. Let me show you how they do it.The Masters at WorkLook how these writers bring passing characters vividly to life:Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr: A pair of monks, small as gnomes, push past, talking animatedly, onions on their breath. Truth Serum by Bernard Cooper: The waitresses at Burlâs wore brown un...2022-05-1904 min
Lit Lessons on Flight Schoolđ§ The Anatomy of Tension: A Scene Study WorkshopJoin our deep-dive analysis of "Crazy for the Storm," featuring marked-up pages that reveal exactly how a master writer builds tension. Plus, discover the moment when craft becomes invisible and story takes over, and learn to create that magic in your own work.Hi and welcome: Itâs time to continue with Crazy for the Storm and the answers to the questions I asked. First, the pages marked up for you to see. Now here are my answer to the questions: * There are two scenes here, and my reasonings goes like th...2022-05-1502 min
Lit Lessons on Flight Schoolđ§ From Theory to Practice: Scene Study WorkshopTake your Scene Recipe Card into the field with an interactive study of "Crazy for the Storm." Follow along with downloadable materials as we discover how Norman Ollestad brings scenes to vivid life, and learn to spot the essential elements that make memoir memorable.Hi and welcome: In my last post, I broke scene into seven basic elements and gave you the assignment of writing the first three into your current work or something new. To recap, they were: location, wider location, and the natural world. Keep going on that. And as you do, I...2022-05-1207 min
Lit Lessons on Flight Schoolđ§ Building Scene by Scene: A Master Class in Memoir's FoundationLearn the essential building block of great memoir, featuring a practical tool that transforms good writing into unforgettable storytelling. Plus, discover why mastering scene is the key to moving from reporting to art.Welcome into Flight School:Generally speaking scene is the building block of creative nonfiction...the widespread notion that nonfiction is the writer's thoughts presented in an expository or summarizing way has done little but produce quantities of unreadable nonfiction.~ Brenda Miller and Suzanna Paola, Tell it SlantThink of scene as a perfect pearl. Each one complete, beautiful...2022-05-0806 minWalk Through Grief with GraceA Yearlong Journey of Love, Loss, and Healing with Meg Streeter LauckIn Western culture, weâre expected to move on quickly after death. After the memorial service ends, itâs back to business as usual. In this episode, guest and retired network television sports director Meg Streeter Lauck tells a love-filled story of caring for her husband for 20 years after his Parkinson's diagnosis. and 10 years with dementia. After his death on December 31st, 2020, she began a yearlong journey to walk through grief with grace. She shares about how Jennâs Transform Your Grief Immersion Program and alternative healing methods such as dance helped her to get out of bed and embrac...2022-04-061h 01
Podcast UFO481. Tenth Anniversary Show!Show guest Luis Jimenez along to celebrate our ten years of Podcast UFO, we will be hearing from Stephen Bassett 17:52 (our very 1st episode guest), Alejandro Rojas 2:47:35 (former UFO newscaster) Michael Lauck 1:13:32 (former UFO newscaster, blog writer), Clas Svahn 4:08, Leslie Kean 1:36:52, Dean Alioto 15:00, Lee Speigel 1:01:12, David Marler 1:47:28, Bryce Zabel 1:06:40, Jennifer Stein 41:09, Peter Robbins 56:17, John Greenewald, Jr 36:44, Travis Walton 1:10:02, Kathleen Marden 33:00, Jr, Richard Cutting 55:27, Stan Gordon 1:04:37, Calvin Parker 1:16:30, Philip Mantle 1:16:30, Ben Hansen 1:20:55, Robert Powell 1:02:36, Chris Lambright 1:24:36, Kevin Randle 9:02, Sam Maranto 46:35, Linda Zimmermann 1:39:52, Dr Michael Masters 1:51:06, Irene Previn 1:32:22, Chase Kloetzke 16:12, Paul Eno 54:07, Greg Bishop 3:02:20, Ben Moss & Tony Angiola 1:42:45, Jordan Bonaparte 43:45, Preston Dennett 1:30:30...2021-11-163h 19
The Self Aware Leader with Jason RigbyBest Selling Author Chloe Rachel Gallaway - The Soulful Child: Twelve Years in the WildernessFinding oneness with nature; the lessons we learn through communicating with creation. Best selling author Chloe Rachel Gallaway shares her remarkable journey in her book, The Soulful Child: Twelve Years in the Wilderness. Chloe Rachael Gallaway is the founder of The Winged River Writer . She has studied the finer elements of writing under the New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Lauck, for the past seven years.  Her early years of study included writing classes and workshops with the Taos Writers Conference. She has been a speaker for, Southwest Writer's of New Mexico, and has hosted 18+ transformational writing re...2021-04-0348 min
Start The Game-Changing Full Audiobook Now, Story Seekers!Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer LauckPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49799to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
Author: Jennifer Lauck
Narrator: Jennifer Lauck
Format: Abridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 0 minutes
Release date: October 1, 2000
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.35 of Total 49
Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. To young Jenny, the house...2000-10-016h 00
Get New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenBlackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer LauckPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found Author: Jennifer Lauck Narrator: Jennifer Lauck Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.35 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. To young Jenny, the...2000-10-0103 min
Explore the Latest Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsBlackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer LauckPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found Author: Jennifer Lauck Narrator: Jennifer Lauck Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.35 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. To young Jenny, the...2000-10-0103 min