Jillian Michaels Joins My Writing Group

Nicola Davison
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

The short story of my short story being published

A while back, I wote a post entitled Finishing is Everything which is a line from one of my workout videos by Jillian Michaels. Don’t ask me which one, as I‘ve had a small library of them on rotation for the past ten years. What can I say? Some struggles are best done in private.

In the post, I applied Jillian’s pep talk to the act of writing and mused that I felt a short story coming on. The vision of her sitting, athletically, amongst us amused me. I wrote it to cheer myself up on a winter night.

And in the spirit of really finishing, I submitted the story to a humour magazine. To my delight, they’ve published it and if you’d like to read it, it’s here on Defenestration. Thank you to them for not throwing it out the window (look up the meaning of their name).

Thank you Jillian for my improved upper body strength and the suspicion that you are indeed watching me right through the screen; something that is now, chillingly, possible.

Shame is a powerful motivator.

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Writer, photographer, mother, Basset Hound-doter and Nova Scotian. www.instagram.com/snickerniki

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