Serious Saltburn energy up in Cambridge this eve Saltburn Cambridge University

My own storm! How delightful. Disproportionately excited about this—Storm Jocelyn set to batter UK as Met Office issues fresh wind and rain warnings | Evening Standard standard.co.uk/news/uk/london…

“If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told.” -- Harry Crews

“The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.” —James Baldwin

11 years ago on June 20th, I thought life was over when I gave up alcohol at 29. Little did I know it had only just begun. No more hangovers, no more synthetic fun—only the real deal kind—the joy of which I had no idea was possible. Sobriety isn’t just abstinence, its connection.

Celebrating the deliciously witty world inside ⁦Plum Sykes⁩ latest novel. A must read. Run don’t walk! #wiveslikeus 📚

A stunning, fresh perspective on a familiar theme. I couldn’t put it down. Thank you Olivia Petter

“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.” —Alice Walker

Always making tea and forgetting about it.

I need words like I need God.

I’ll read anything about sex, drugs, and rock & roll. It’s pretty much all I want to write about too.

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” —Graham Greene

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” —Sylvia Plath

Listening to a potentially unhealthy amount of The Cure

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.” —Voltaire

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” —Thomas Mann

“Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

New year new website! Reach out at jocelynjeffery.com for all things writing, health coaching, and workshops on ‘writing to heal’. Link in bio ✨

‘Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.’ —Viktor Frankl

After years of writing, rewriting, and more writing, I’m thrilled to be represented in the literary space by Karolina Kaim WME Books UK @wmebooks @wme ✒️📚