My story ideas come from curiosity: asking “what if?” and exploring the answer. Questions are the only essential aspect for creativity; the rest can be taught.
Questions
A list of questions (with links to the posts that answer them) can be found on the Questions & Answers page.
Jennie St. Thomas is a pen name I chose intentionally — rooted in history and used for clarity rather than secrecy.
Two questions about writing: how I came to it, and who shaped my understanding of the craft.
How much money do I make as a writer? How do you train to be a writer? What advice would I give a beginning writer?
Here are some answers to questions about my future fan fiction plans.
Talking about where I’m from; where I live now; family, pets, and hobbies.
I practice a religion and it affects my writing, but my religious identity is complex and so is my viewpoint on such matters. For reasons of anonymity, I also prefer to be selective about commenting on political, social, and economic topics on this web site.
I sometimes quip that I might be in a minority of one: when I first encountered Star Trek, I thought it was a book series. It happened sometime in 1983, the year I turned eight. I’d been a precocious reader, and was reading at a fifth-grade level by the age of 5. I progressed to […]
While I do not write full-time or as my primary source of income, I still put a considerable amount of time into writing every week. My word counts and writing speed reflect this.
Yes, “Jennie St. Thomas” is a pen name, and it’s one I selected with care.