I received the following from Jenny Walker last evening:
Dear Allison,
I wish I could tell you I had a new project but sadly I don't have much inspiration and even less time at present. I do have a desire to write, but need the other two afore-mentioned items too!
I'm glad you enjoyed my writings.
Thanks for getting in touch.
Regards,
Jenny
Unfortunately, it would not appear that Ms Walker will be producing anything in the near future which greatly saddens me.
I hope that the rest of you, who are so blessed with the writing gift, will take up the slack.
Comments
Jenny Walker is one fantastic writer!
Hope that she rediscovers her muse, soon and grace us with more. But want her to be hapy and healthy more than writing, again.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Lives...
...it saddened me when I read this. Not because of my disappointment, but hers. All too frequently folks post here in this manner; apologetic and nearly but unnecessarily contrite over an absence and a lack of production. If I never read another story from her other than to re-read her work here, I'd still be blessed.
What is saddening, however, is that she feels the need, like so many others, to apologize for not producing. We write from what we have inside. As much as I'd like to blame an over-the-shoulder mythological being for what I write or don't, it's really about the deposit of grace and strength I've received every day here from folks who have read my work and even some who haven't. If she's not writing, it's out of a lack, not of inspiration from a muse, but from the dearth of strength and encouragement and perhaps lack of that support we all need.
I have been blessed to no end by her writing, but even more in the very brief but sincere words from Jenny Walker the person. I'm hoping that she gains the opportunity to be refreshed and strengthened; in doing so, she might write, but even if she doesn't, I hope she'll be just fine.
Love, Andrea Lena
Jenny Walk's Influence
I can safely say had I not stumbled upon Jenny Walker none of my Nancy Cole books or stories would ever have been written. I discovered Jenny's book, 'No Half Measures' about the time I was stumbling and bumbling around with a very rough of a story I had tentatively entitled 'Tips.' I enjoyed a brief exchange of correspondence with Jenny that included an apology for using a restaurant manager named Henry in my story for she also had a character in one of hers by the same name who was a restaurant manager. The coincidence was totally happenstance, a real fluke. But it was nice to find Jenny was a real person, one who was helpful to me in so many ways because she showed me TG literature did not have to be stories about trips to the mall or include long, drawn out scenes of dressing up inserted in ever second chapter.
I hope to see her name on a book again. Until then, I hope some of the better writers here pick up what she has written and follow her lead by writing stories that are not about TGs, but stories in which the main character just happens to be TG. It is a subtle difference but, in my mind an important one.
Nancy Cole
"You may be what you resolve to be."
T.J. Jackson