FIND YOUR CREATIVE SUPERPOWER.
HEAL YOUR HURT.
WRITE THROUGH YOUR FEAR.
CULTIVATE JOY.
CHOOSE YOUR LEGACY.
Soulful Story Consulting and Creative Navigation for GenX Women and Fearless Crones ready to follow the thread of what matters most–on the page, in life, and through every bold next step.
GO FURTHER TOGETHER.
1:1 Hot Flash of Genius Call
How long have you been circling the thing that wants to be born?
The book.
The creative project.
The bold next chapter.
How many years has it lived on your someday list? How many times have you felt the spark and then set it aside?
If you’re honest, part of what’s holding you back is fear.
Fear of starting and not finishing.
Fear of being seen.
Fear of getting it wrong.
Fear of shining more brightly than your old roles allow.
Fear is subtle. It sounds like practicality. Like timing. Like “not yet.”
Maybe you were told to be realistic.
Maybe you decided your ideas weren’t important enough.
Maybe you’ve convinced yourself it’s too late.
And still, the spark remains.
Your creative fire is not frivolous. It’s a signal.
What if tending to your fire it is part of your real work now?
What if this longing is pointing you toward a more alive, more fierce version of yourself?
The Hot Flash of Genius consulting calls is a space to bring that spark into the open.
We gather around a virtual campfire, talk through the big vision, and fan the embers until your next bold move becomes clear.
You don’t have to do it alone.
If something in you is warming as you read this…that’s your cue.
Let’s tend the fire.
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Hi and Welcome!
Meet Jenn, Your Mindful Writing Mentor, Editor, and Creativity Kindler
Jenn Baljko is passionate about helping GenXers and Crones unearth their wisdom, heal the hurt of being told they would never be writers, organize their writing process, and finally write the books they have been hoping to write for decades.
Jenn draws on nearly 30 years of award-winning journalism, writing and editing experience, travel to 50+ countries, and a 3.5-year walk across two continents to facilitate compassionate conversations that ignite creative chutzpah, confidence, and book-writing courage.
In an awe-inspired, high-vibration creative flow that spanned 18 months, Jenn recently published two books. One was a sisterhood-infused collaborative endeavor, and the other was an ambitious, but tender, undertaking to understand lessons learned from walking Bangkok to Barcelona.
In the first project, Jenn stepped into the role of lead author and developmental editor, guiding 11 women through the a nine-month book writing, editing, and publishing process. Our collaborative book, Fierce Awakenings, was published by Red Thread Publishing in September 2023. The book earned best-selling accolades on Amazon in various categories including personal transformation and spirituality; spiritual healing; women author literary criticism; women writers in women studies, and spiritual growth self-help.
Jenn's debut solo book, The In Between: Journeying From Fear to Courage, was written, edited, and published through a whirlwind of focused attention and cultivated joy from January to June 2024. Reaching Amazon bestseller status when it launched, the book continues to rank well in several categories, including personal transformation and spirituality; women's personal spiritual growth; hiking and camping excursion guides (books), and travelogues and travel essays.
Her stories have also appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul; Fortunel; Islands Magazine; The Nature of Cities; Thrive; Traveler Tales, and many other newspapers and magazines. Jenn co-authored and co-published three travel-related books with the Townsend 11 writing collective: No Fixed Destination, No Set Boundaries and No Definite Plans.
As a trained mindfulness meditation instructor and a licensed Emotional Tour movement and embodiment facilitator, Jenn invites her mentees to use their heart-mind-body discernment to navigate the sometimes scary and sometimes joyful book writing and editing adventure with ease, grace, and loving self-care.
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Developmental Edit
Memoir and Nonfiction Manuscripts
Each manuscript is unique and requires its own amount of time to edit. Typically, depending on your book's complexity, the subject matter and scheduling logistics, you can expect feedback within four weeks of submitting your manuscript.
A developmental edit includes:
* A full read-through of the first 50,000 words of a memoir or nonfiction manuscript
* Big-picture review and analysis of the manuscript's premise, overall structure, narrative story arc, chapter flow, hero/heroine's journey, reader impact potential, and the book's voice and tone
* Written and actionable feedback on the manuscript's structure and its strengths, problem spots, and next-step revision ideas
* Two x 1-hour Zoom calls - Call 1 is before you submit your manuscript to discuss the book's overall scope, your reflections and editorial concerns and editing expectations. Call 2 after editorial feedback is submitted and guides the author through possible next-step actions
* One month of editorial email support after developmental edit feedback is provided to the authors (limited to 10 emails)
Line editing, copyediting and final proofreading are not included in the developmental edit (although some obvious errors may be corrected to show examples of where copy can be improved). These are separate editorial services, and are not provided by Always On My Way.
Generally, you can expect to pay roughly $5,000 for a developmental edit of memoir and nonfiction manuscripts up to 50,000 words, and an additional $1,000 for each 10,000 words beyond that.
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