J.Kenny
@jkenny.studio
author | composer | ghostwriter
music – https://jkenny.studio
writing – https://jasonkenny.com
newsletter on writing and creative act – https://jasonkenny.com/dispatch
music – https://jkenny.studio
writing – https://jasonkenny.com
newsletter on writing and creative act – https://jasonkenny.com/dispatch
these album mixes might be closer to finished than i realised...
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
these album mixes might be closer to finished than i realised...
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Some thoughts on starting the rewriting process... just before I do the same on my novel in progress
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
Revision, Rewriting and Applying The Hero's Journey — J.Kenny
When you read back through your manuscript – and you might even get a sense of these parts while writing – you will find passages or sequences that don’t hit the right note. The first step in this rev...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Some thoughts on starting the rewriting process... just before I do the same on my novel in progress
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
Some thoughts on starting the rewriting process... just before I do the same on my novel in progress
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
Revision, Rewriting and Applying The Hero's Journey — J.Kenny
When you read back through your manuscript – and you might even get a sense of these parts while writing – you will find passages or sequences that don’t hit the right note. The first step in this rev...
jasonkenny.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Some thoughts on starting the rewriting process... just before I do the same on my novel in progress
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
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Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
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Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
The focus of the Dispatch this year has been on writing the first draft of your book and starting the revisions. The next two editions of the Dispatch look at using classical story structure to strengthen your story through revisions.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The focus of the Dispatch this year has been on writing the first draft of your book and starting the revisions. The next two editions of the Dispatch look at using classical story structure to strengthen your story through revisions.
join the wire –
join the wire –
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Cowards, all of them. I live in Illinois, and I'm writing to Dick Durbin everyday letting him know I want him to retire immediately, so Pritzker can appoint a fighter.
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Cowards, all of them. I live in Illinois, and I'm writing to Dick Durbin everyday letting him know I want him to retire immediately, so Pritzker can appoint a fighter.
sometimes the timeline delivers
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
sometimes the timeline delivers
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"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."
Jean-Luc Godard.
ph. Louis Garrel by Bruce Weber.
Jean-Luc Godard.
ph. Louis Garrel by Bruce Weber.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."
Jean-Luc Godard.
ph. Louis Garrel by Bruce Weber.
Jean-Luc Godard.
ph. Louis Garrel by Bruce Weber.
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Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
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November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
Writers of non-fiction also face problems with exposition. Here's how Michael Lewis paced it through Moneyball.
Pacing For Non-Fiction — J.Kenny
To cover a difficult topic in a way that’s as engaging as Moneyball, there must be a question that pulls us into the book. The chapters, or sequences, must develop from each other. Plunging head first...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Writers of non-fiction also face problems with exposition. Here's how Michael Lewis paced it through Moneyball.
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apnews.com/article/cens... purge the truth so they can lie w/out federal data contradicting them. they are delusional enough to think that they can kill the truth by deleting it from the databases they control. the truth will not die easily.
Data scientists perform last rites for 'dearly departed datasets' in 2nd Trump administration
A group of U.S. data scientists has published a list of federal datasets that have been altered or removed since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
apnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
apnews.com/article/cens... purge the truth so they can lie w/out federal data contradicting them. they are delusional enough to think that they can kill the truth by deleting it from the databases they control. the truth will not die easily.
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The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
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Three ways to take your podcast and turn it into a book. Different methods that have worked for my clients.
Three ways to turn a podcast into a book — J.Kenny
Ghostwriting is an exercise in adaptation. My job is to adapt my client’s story or ideas to the written page in a way that captivates their readers. A handful of my clients started the process of writ...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Three ways to take your podcast and turn it into a book. Different methods that have worked for my clients.
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Fabulous quote from Jung.
![Out of the unconscious flows the well of life, and what you don't accept in yourself naturally falls back into that well and poisons it; when you don't recognise certain facts, they form a layer in the unconscious through which the water of life must come up, and it will be poisoned by all those things you have left down below. If they are accepted in your conscious life, then they are mixed with other more valuable and cleaner substances, and the odious qualities of the lower functions disappear more or less. They only form little shadows here and there, sort of spice for the good things. But by excluding them, you cause them to heap up and they become entirely evil substances; for a thing to become poisonous, you only need to repress it.
By Carl Gustav Jung from, 'Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, Vol. 2'.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fabulous quote from Jung.
know your history
This is literally Holocaust revisionism and I would like people to see the memorial in front of the Reichstag to members who were killed by the Nazis the vast majority of whom were killed for being communists- each slab is a known member
November 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
know your history
Just a Halloween reminder that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor, and the monster is whatever generative AI made from those stolen body parts. Other people's body parts.
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Just a Halloween reminder that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor, and the monster is whatever generative AI made from those stolen body parts. Other people's body parts.
Three ways to take your podcast and turn it into a book. Different methods that have worked for my clients.
Three ways to turn a podcast into a book — J.Kenny
Ghostwriting is an exercise in adaptation. My job is to adapt my client’s story or ideas to the written page in a way that captivates their readers. A handful of my clients started the process of writ...
jasonkenny.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Three ways to take your podcast and turn it into a book. Different methods that have worked for my clients.
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How can Indiana Jones help you with your writing?
The next two editions of the Dispatch take a deep dive into the structure of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, looking at different ways this approach to story structure can help other writing. Fiction. Memoir. Thought leadership.
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The next two editions of the Dispatch take a deep dive into the structure of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, looking at different ways this approach to story structure can help other writing. Fiction. Memoir. Thought leadership.
Join the wire.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
How can Indiana Jones help you with your writing?
The next two editions of the Dispatch take a deep dive into the structure of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, looking at different ways this approach to story structure can help other writing. Fiction. Memoir. Thought leadership.
Join the wire.
The next two editions of the Dispatch take a deep dive into the structure of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, looking at different ways this approach to story structure can help other writing. Fiction. Memoir. Thought leadership.
Join the wire.
How can Indiana Jones help you with your writing?
The next two editions of the Dispatch take a deep dive into the structure of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, looking at different ways this approach to story structure can help other writing. Fiction. Memoir. Thought leadership.
Join the wire.
The next two editions of the Dispatch take a deep dive into the structure of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, looking at different ways this approach to story structure can help other writing. Fiction. Memoir. Thought leadership.
Join the wire.
dispatch — J.Kenny
jasonkenny.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
How can Indiana Jones help you with your writing?
The next two editions of the Dispatch take a deep dive into the structure of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, looking at different ways this approach to story structure can help other writing. Fiction. Memoir. Thought leadership.
Join the wire.
The next two editions of the Dispatch take a deep dive into the structure of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, looking at different ways this approach to story structure can help other writing. Fiction. Memoir. Thought leadership.
Join the wire.
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![When you are composing a verse, let there not be hair’s breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say what is on your mind; never hesitate a moment.
Matsuo Bashō – on poetry (though I believe it applies to all writing)
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I'm old enough to remember when parents groups put warning stickers on CDs because they worried suggestive lyrics might lead to anything from drug use to teen sex to suicide.
But if a robot explicitly takes you through the steps rather than a subtle Judas Priest lyric, I guess it's okay.
But if a robot explicitly takes you through the steps rather than a subtle Judas Priest lyric, I guess it's okay.
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm old enough to remember when parents groups put warning stickers on CDs because they worried suggestive lyrics might lead to anything from drug use to teen sex to suicide.
But if a robot explicitly takes you through the steps rather than a subtle Judas Priest lyric, I guess it's okay.
But if a robot explicitly takes you through the steps rather than a subtle Judas Priest lyric, I guess it's okay.
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Bezos removed books from Amazon on Ghislane Maxwell's trial and Kevin Spacey's trial.
Inner City Press is a nonprofit in NYC.
They do fantastic work.
Fuck Bezos.
@innercitypress.bsky.social
Inner City Press is a nonprofit in NYC.
They do fantastic work.
Fuck Bezos.
@innercitypress.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Bezos removed books from Amazon on Ghislane Maxwell's trial and Kevin Spacey's trial.
Inner City Press is a nonprofit in NYC.
They do fantastic work.
Fuck Bezos.
@innercitypress.bsky.social
Inner City Press is a nonprofit in NYC.
They do fantastic work.
Fuck Bezos.
@innercitypress.bsky.social
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
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October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
As a ghostwriter I don't get thrown many interviews. I'm usually in the shadows checking what the author said.
But these people wanted to know about ghostwriting so I spoke up.
But these people wanted to know about ghostwriting so I spoke up.
Creative Collaboration: Advice From Ghostwriter Jason Kenny
Ever wonder what goes into ghostwriting a book? Read on to get an inside look at the collaborative process from ghostwriter Jason Kenny.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
As a ghostwriter I don't get thrown many interviews. I'm usually in the shadows checking what the author said.
But these people wanted to know about ghostwriting so I spoke up.
But these people wanted to know about ghostwriting so I spoke up.
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A Bard College student and Afghan asylum seeker whose family fled under threat from the Taliban BECAUSE THEY WERE WORKING ALONGSIDE THE U.S. has been taken by ICE for “expedited removal” after being called in for an asylum hearing.
humanrightsfirst.org/library/huma...
humanrightsfirst.org/library/huma...
Human Rights First, Faith Leaders, and Community Members Call for Immediate Release of Afghan Asylum Seeker Detained by ICE - Human Rights First
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York — The Episcopal Diocese of New York, Human Rights First, and Bard College are calling for the immediate release of Ali Faqirzada, a 31-year-old Afghan student who was det...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A Bard College student and Afghan asylum seeker whose family fled under threat from the Taliban BECAUSE THEY WERE WORKING ALONGSIDE THE U.S. has been taken by ICE for “expedited removal” after being called in for an asylum hearing.
humanrightsfirst.org/library/huma...
humanrightsfirst.org/library/huma...