70 ratings | 13 reviews | avg rating:5.00

more photos (1)

Trish Lindsey Jaggers’s Followers (13)

Trish’s Bookshelves

to-read (603)
currently-reading (0)
read (74)
did-not-finish (0)

Trish’s Friends (248)

Sally Boots

1,108 books | 103 friends

Tara

1,290 books | 1,955 friends

AnisaAnne

1,518 books | 510 friends

Molly

1,346 books | 705 friends

Andrew Najberg

120 books | 198 friends

Jimmy

4,000 books | 651 friends

Julian Worker

1,491 books | 5,159 friends

Jenna

503 books | 1,177 friends

More friends…

Trish Lindsey Jaggers

Goodreads Author

Born

October 04

Member Since

June 2007

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/trish_lindsey_jaggers

edit data

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Trish Lindsey Jaggers questions, please sign up.

Popular Answered Questions

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Trish Lindsey Jaggers Write. There's no such thing as the inability to write words. They may not make sense, but write them anyway.

If I hit a "block," I stop writing synta…moreWrite. There's no such thing as the inability to write words. They may not make sense, but write them anyway.

If I hit a "block," I stop writing syntactically. I will jot words. List the items on my desk. Things in my purse. Names of books on the shelves around me. This is the "haze-clearing" phase. The brain will do this less and less frequently if you don't let it get away with it. :)

This works in class, too. I tell my composition students to keep writing even when their brain halts. They must write "word, word, word" and keep writing it until something new pops in their brain--which it ALWAYS does. The brain needed a bit of a break, but it gets tired of the fingernail on the chalkboard and will spew out something, anything, to get the writer to stop writing "word." Works like a charm for them, too.

(less)

flag

1 like · like
Comment

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Trish Lindsey Jaggers The end product is the best thing about being a writer. Writing (poems, stories, essays, and so on) is a "made thing." When I've written, I've complet…moreThe end product is the best thing about being a writer. Writing (poems, stories, essays, and so on) is a "made thing." When I've written, I've completed something. Given it bones, muscle, tissue, and skin. I may have to polish it a bit, put better clothes on it, but I made something exist where there was nothing before. I'm suddenly a word goddess. Who wouldn't love that power?(less)

flag

1 like · like
Comment

See all 6 answers from Trish Lindsey Jaggers…

Combine Editions
Trish Lindsey Jaggers’s books

Average rating: 4.31 · 13 ratings · 3 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Holonym 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Halo and the Devil's Tail: A Fictionalized Account of Genuine Paranormal Experiences by Lewis D Ladd, Trish Lindsey Jaggers (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De-Composition: Rigor Mortis it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

0 posts
Trish Lindsey Jaggers's Blog

Trish Lindsey Jaggers hasn't written any blog posts yet.

Trish’s Quotes

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

7927 likes

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational-faith

7625 likes

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hitler

1109 likes

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: brotherhood, inspirational, wisdom

1049 likes

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

6735 likes

More of Trish’s quotes…

recent posts
Trish’s Groups

¡ POETRY ! — 22533 members — last activity Apr 13, 2026 03:25PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Second Wind Publishing — 536 members — last activity Sep 22, 2013 02:33PM
Second Wind Publishing, LLC, is an independent press that produces quality novels by talented storytellers with readable, distinctive voices. http://s ...more

A Place for Poets — 456 members — last activity May 15, 2021 02:36AM
This group is for those who believe in the cross-cultural necessity and permanence of poetry. Share and discuss your favourite poets and the writing p ...more

THE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB — 6694 members — last activity 8 minutes ago
ALL GENRE COMMUNITY OF BOOK LOVERS-Perfect for those interested in good books of any genre, film and lively discussion!- from current fiction, thrille ...more

2Leaf Press Books — 5 members — last activity Apr 01, 2020 08:13PM
2Leaf Press welcomes Goodreads members to review and post book reviews on Goodreads. We publish poetry, fiction/nonfiction, memoirs and anthologies. Y ...more

More of Trish’s groups…

Trish’s Friend Comments

Comments (showing 1-1) post a comment »

date

newest »

message 1: by Jan

Jun 17, 2009 03:15PM

Trish, thanks so much for responding "yes" to my invite to take a look at my blog, above. Any advice you have or suggestions for future entries would be much appreciated.
Gratefully,
Jan

reply | flag