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From First Drafts To First Publication
- Jenn Ashworth trained herself from early drafts to finished novel by doing an MA in Creative Writing and workshopping pieces with peers.
- She received 26 publisher rejections before small press Arcadia accepted her first novel, teaching resilience through the process.
How A Traumatic Birth Became A Ragged Memoir
- After a traumatic birth and long illness Jenn tried writing novels about the experience but drafts failed to hold the chaos she lived through.
- Over eight years she saved fragments and false starts in a Dropbox folder which later coalesced into Notes Made While Falling.
Form Emerged From The Questions Asked
- Two guiding questions shaped the book: What's wrong with me? and What's wrong with the novel?
- Those questions led Ashworth to a hybrid form that mixes memoir, essay, criticism and fragments rather than a single genre.