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Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia is the best-selling and award-winning author of Growing Up Between Stops on the A-train: A Memoir (Winner! 2020 Kindle Book Awards Reader's Choice • Winner! 2020 New York City Big Book Award • Winner! 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards). Jennifer has been a professional writer for over 25 years with credits in radio, TV, print, and film including writing a hit song in Japan and editing a newspaper in Jersey City. Jennifer holds a B.A. in English from Thomas Edison State University and is completing graduate work at Harvard. She currently resides near New York City.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia I put the project down and come back to it later. My best friend always says that she does her best thinking in the bathroom (ha!). I think I do my be…moreI put the project down and come back to it later. My best friend always says that she does her best thinking in the bathroom (ha!). I think I do my best writing on the train ride to work, in between flipping the hamburgers I'm cooking for dinner, during my sleep, and other random, unexpected places. I think the key is having a clear vision of what you want to communicate to the reader, jotting it down when you can, and then organizing and polishing it when you have a chance to sit down for a block of time and really focus.(less)

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Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia I'm a communication junkie and writing gives me the opportunity to relay my thoughts in a way that is better thought out than speaking, yet as artisti…moreI'm a communication junkie and writing gives me the opportunity to relay my thoughts in a way that is better thought out than speaking, yet as artistic as painting. I always marvel at how different every writer is. We may use prescribed techniques, grammar, etc., but if you give two writers the same topic and ask them to write a paragraph, you'll never get two matching paragraphs in return. We all have a voice and a song. I love "singing."(less)

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Average rating: 4.74 · 567 ratings · 68 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Growing Up Between Stops on the A-train 4.92 avg rating — 416 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
	Growing Up Between Stops on the A-train: A Memoir 4.26 avg rating — 100 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
	Mexican American: A Novel Inspired by Real-life Events by Brenda Guadalupe Casten, Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Lower East Side 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 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
	Foster Parents 3.67 avg rating — 9 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
	Gloria & Me 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 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
	Growing Up Between Stops on the A-train : A Memoir 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
	The Effects of U.S. Legislation on Undocumented Mexican Immigration from 1875-2011: Thomas Edison State University LIB-495 Liberal Arts Capstone Thesis (2016) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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