Jenny Rae Rappaport has been published in Lightspeed Magazine, Escape Pod, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among other magazines. She is a 2009 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and holds a BA in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University. In the past, she has worked as a literary agent, a marine sciences field guide, and spent a semester observing monkeys as an intern with the Pittsburgh Zoo. Jenny lives in New Jersey with her family, where she divides her time between writing and herding small children. She can be found online at www.jennyrae.com and on Twitter at @jennyrae.
You’re a 2009 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Can you talk about your pre-Odyssey writing process? What kind of writing schedule, if any, did you keep?
At the time I went to Odyssey, I was working full-time as a literary agent. Much of my writing was squeezed in around evenings and weekends, like many other writers who have day jobs. Pre-Odyssey, I would have periods of productivity that were often centered around participating in writing contests for the Codex Writers Group or trying to meet a particular submission deadline for a market I really wanted to sell a story to.
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