Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Lovely - 04-07-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Lovely Story can show us the lovely sides of life, that’s true. But let’s not, as writers, be afraid to show the other sides of...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Lethal - 04-06-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Lethal Story, when done well, can have an almost lethal beauty around it, showing us the highest highs and lowest lows of life....
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Grip - 04-05-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Grip Get a grip on yourself, your story, your plot, your characters. But not too tightly. Too tight suffocates a story – or a...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Wood - 04-04-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Wood When you find yourself Stuck in a story, go and get yourself lost in the wood. Metaphorically speaking. It is the new and...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 String - 04-03-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: String String your readers along. Tease them, torture them (a little). But do not, in the end, let them down. The promise of the...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Air - 04-02-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Air For many of us, writing is like air: a thing we need to survive. In other words, you’re not alone. You’re not crazy. You...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Fanatical - 04-01-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Fanatical It’s okay to be fanatical about protecting your writing time. In fact, some would say that’s the only way to ensure...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Deranged - 03-31-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Deranged Any time that you step out of line, in whatever way that’s defined as in the moment, there will be those who will call...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Sedate - 03-30-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Sedate We all, as writers and readers alike, have a preferred pace for the stories we read and write. Some of us like action...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Damp - 03-29-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Damp Curling up with a good story can be a wonderful way to deal with days of cold and damp. Whether of the weather or the soul....
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Disarm - 03-28-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Disarm Disarm your critics with your grace under fire and your stubborn determination to stand up and speak out for what you...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Giant - 03-27-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Giant Not every story is giant. (Or contains them, for that matter.) There are plenty of stories that are small. Little stories...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Foolish - 03-26-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Foolish There are those who would say it is foolish to follow your Dream of being a writer. I would respectfully say it is more...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Posess - 03-25-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Posess Frequently, those around us may wonder what would possess us to choose such an uncertain career as the flinging of words...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Deliver - 03-24-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Deliver At the end of the day, a writer is there to deliver a story. To provide entertainment, encouragement, enlightenment,...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Spare - 03-23-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Spare Many of us, when we begin to write, do so in our ‘spare time’. Those of us who go on to write seriously, realize there’s...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Earthquake - 03-22-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Earthquake Some stories are an earthquake, loud, rumbling, destructive in their message and their form. They show you without...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Utopian - 03-21-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Utopian Utopian stories have their uses, I suppose. Stories of a purrfection we are unlikely to achieve – or desire to, if we...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Blade - 03-20-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Blade Story is as the blade of a knife, severing what was and is from what could be. Wield that blade well. 🌟 🦄🐦🐥🦉😸🦉🐥🐦🦄 🌟 Caws...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Seed - 03-19-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Seed Use your stories to plant seeds. A seed of hope here. A seed of encouragement there. A seed of education over yonder. Plant...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Tire - 03-18-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Tire When you tire of the World as it is, write. Write of the Change you wish to see in the World. Write of what will happen if...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Tire - 03-18-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Tire When you tire of the World as it is, write. Write of the Change you wish to see in the World. Write of what will happen if...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Snails - 03-17-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Snails Sometimes, the words come so slowly, little snails trailing bits of literary slime across the page. Keep writing. You...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Aboriginal - 03-16-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Aboriginal Aboriginal wisdom is to be respected. Wisdom – and history – did not begin with you. 🌟 🦄🐦🐥🦉😸🦉🐥🐦🦄 🌟 Caws to Action:...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Intend - 03-15-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Intend Sometimes your words – your best efforts – will not come out as you intend. They will lead to words of correction,...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Wine - 03-14-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Wine Days of wine and roses. Days of lingering romantically over your words, loving them, writing them, polishing them. As long...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Military - 03-13-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Military There are those who create with almost military precision. They are plotsers who never deviate from their intricately-...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Pretend - 03-12-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Pretend The point of fiction, or any writing really, is to pretend. That we are someone different, somewhere different, somehow...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Narrow - 03-11-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Narrow Narrow minds often create narrow words. Narrow words do little to change minds – or worlds. Widen your words – and your...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Trees - 03-10-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Trees When you are in the middle of the forest, you can only see the trees immediately around you. The rest are lost in the...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Bell - 03-09-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Bell You can choose the ring the Bell and quit whenever you choose. Sometimes, it is even the wisest thing you can do. But don’t...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Business - 03-08-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Business It is your business to put words on paper, whether pixellated or otherwise. It is your business to polish those words...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Dusty - 03-07-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Dusty Never let your keyboard get dusty. Your pen and paper, your phone, whatever you use to write with and on. Keep them dust-...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Thin - 03-06-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Thin Some days the words are thin – on the ground and in the story. They are hard to find and harder to make robust. Some days...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Belong - 03-05-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Belong However much you may think that you do not belong, when you write, you are part of a most important community in this...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Teeth - 03-04-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Teeth When appropriate, when needed, let your words have teeth, big and strong and sharp, to say what needs to be said and to...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Burly - 03-03-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Burly Some stories are big and burly. Some are small and sweet. What’s important to remember is that the world - and those who...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Shaggy - 03-02-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Shaggy It’s not always about the words being purr-fect, polished. Sometimes, it’s about the words being shaggy, unkempt, a...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Futuristic - 03-01-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Futuristic Is it futuristic to desire to look beyond what lies today to see what may be tomorrow? Is that a bad thing? 🌟...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Decorate - 02-28-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Decorate Decorate your world with words. Decorate your stories with passion, emotion, truth and lies and wonder. Decorate your...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Arrogant - 02-27-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Arrogant Be appropriately arrogant. Claim your knowledge, your wisdom, your words and your stories. Be arrogant enough to say...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Sofa - 02-26-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Sofa While it is not impossible to write solely from the experiences gained from sitting on your sofa, it is certainly harder...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Wholesale - 02-25-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Wholesale Try not to make wholesale decisions. Try to allow room for nuance, for details. The devil may be in the details, but...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Floor - 02-24-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Floor When you hit the floor, as you will, the important thing to remember is that you have the power to get up again. To keep...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Quack - 02-23-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Quack If it has a quack like a duck, does that mean it’s a duck? It might. And it might not. The delights of fiction mean that...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Bitter - 02-22-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Bitter There are bitter truths out there, but don’t let them make you bitter. Allow them to flow through you, through your...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Appreciate - 02-21-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Appreciate Appreciate those around you. The ones who support.The ones who detract. The ones who help.The ones who hinder. The...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Waste - 02-20-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Waste Don’t waste another moment before sitting down to write. Don’t waste another instant in self-doubt. Don’t waste precious...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Pie - 02-19-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Pie Sweet as pie. Sour as a lemon. So many ways to describe words and writing. What will yours be? 🌟 🦄🐦🐥🦉😸🦉🐥🐦🦄 🌟 Caws to Action:...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: 🌟 Murky - 02-18-22
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Murky Sometimes the path to your words is murky, hard to detect. Sometimes the path to your words is clear, easy to find. Keep...