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Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Assorted - 02-17-22
March 13, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Assorted Out of all the assorted tips, tricks, techniques, words of advice and caution out there, there will be a bare handful...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Weigh - 02-16-22
March 13, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Weigh Often, the things that weigh on your mind, your heart, your soul, are the things you are called to write upon the most. So...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Soggy - 02-15-22
March 13, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Soggy Sometimes your words are power-full, vibrant, charismatic. But that usually only happens after a bunch of other words are...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Cable - 02-14-22
March 13, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Cable Sometimes, your work is a lifeline for others, a cable on which to hang on for another day. It can be hard to accept this,...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Enthusiastic - 02-13-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Enthusiastic Be enthusiastic about your work, at least in aggregate, at least overall.There will be times when you donβt love...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Delicious - 02-12-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Delicious Creativity is about creating delicious work. Work that you desire to dive into, swim around in, play and live and...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Innate - 02-11-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Innate Creativity is innate to the human species. Never doubt that.The forms and places and kinds of creativity can and do...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Drum - 02-10-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Drum Follow the beat of your own drum. Know that in places it will sound like those of others. Know that in places it will...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Feeling - 02-09-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Feeling Feeling βa pawem of creative creativity There is a feeling when you write. A feeling when you donβt. A feeling when...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Debonair - 02-08-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Debonair There are times you feel debonair, in control of your self and your words. Cheerfully and stylishly letting your...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Rings - 02-07-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Rings Run rings around your only true competition β yourself. Let the others go. π π¦π¦π₯π¦πΈπ¦π₯π¦π¦ π Caws to Action: four things to...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Abortive - 02-06-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Abortive Abortive attempts are still attempts. Just donβt stop there. Back up and pounce again. Movement doesnβt happen...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Memorize - 02-05-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Memorize Good writing isnβt about memorizing things β at least not directly. Memorize how you feel, how you react, how others...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Women - 02-04-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Women Women, men, anyone on the long spectrum in between, it doesnβt matter. We all have important things to say and stories...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Night - 02-03-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Night Night Owl. Dawn Lark. Day Bird. It doesnβt matter when you like to write, when you can write. It matters that you DO...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Cuddly - 02-02-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Cuddly Sometimes you write and itβs soft, sweet. Cuddly. And other times you write, itβs rough, hard, back and balls against...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Meal - 02-01-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Meal Make a meal out of your creativity, your writing. Lovingly plan the menu, choose the ingredients, bake and cook and plate...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Pick - 01-31-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Pick You have the ability to tell many stories, create many things. Over the course of a lifetime, a career, you can bring...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Free - 01-30-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Free You are free to make choices. About your life, your love, your Dreams. Doing that, the highest act of Love. π Let your...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Apparatus - 01-29-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Apparatus When you approach your creativity, your furrst acts of creation, it can feel like you need a lot of apparatus to get...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Wing - 01-28-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Wing When you create, your mind and heart, your very soul, take wing. Flying into a joyous unknown, bringing back the stories...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Nutty - 01-27-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Nutty When you declare your desire to become a creative, many people will look at you as if you are nutty, insane, a danger....
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Regular - 01-26-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Regular To become a habit, never mind a potential way of earning a living, creating needs to be a regular thing. Itβs so easy...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Glow - 01-25-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Glow Maybe itβs just me, but thereβs a certain glow that happens when a prrroject is finished, received well by the world....
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Rightful - 01-24-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Rightful Creativity is your birthright. Your rightful place in society, a creator. There are a lot of things out there in this...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Bite-sized - 01-23-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Bite-sized (from a convo with Mike over repetition in creation and that hit songs always have choruses) Keep your concepts...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Psychedelic - 01-22-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Psychedelic Tie-dyed color movesin infinite color of60s acid rock. -Mike Diamond Let your words and your works flow as they...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Pancake - 01-21-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Pancake Some days, your work will feel flat as a pancake. Thatβs okay. There will be other days. Promise. π π¦π¦π₯π¦πΈπ¦π₯π¦π¦ π Caws...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Bang - 01-20-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Bang There You are, creating along, when *bang!^ something happens. Doesnβt matter β in this moment β whether itβs good or bad...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Peaceful - 01-19-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Peaceful Creating isnβt always peaceful. Sometimes, itβs downright painful. That doesnβt, however, mean that itβs not worth...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Abashed - 01-18-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Abashed Donβt feel abashed about your work. Feel prrroud instead. You created something. And thatβs not something that...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Piquant - 01-17-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Piquant Chilli as it should be.Intense personality.Pepper jack with ham. -Mike Diamond For work to be remembered, it needs...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Steep - 01-16-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Steep The price for turning your back on your creativity is steep. A price paid in health. A price paid in happiness. It is a...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Stiff - 01-15-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Stiff Sometimes, despite your best efforts, your creativity will feel stiff, forced. When that happens, itβs often best to...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Fantastic - 01-14-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Fantastic Fantastic is a dream, a fantasy, something that isnβt real yet. But it could be. π π¦π¦π₯π¦πΈπ¦π₯π¦π¦ π Caws to Action: four...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Close - 01-13-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Close The best stories lie close to our hearts, share our souls. The best stories speak to our minds, reminding them that not...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Copper - 01-12-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Copper I work in copper wire now, when I wrap crystals in wire instead of pages in words. Itβs a soft wire, easy to use,...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Transport - 01-11-22
March 12, 2022
a Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Transport Stories, in whatever media they are told, serve to transport us to another world. Such is the power of story. Once...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Silky - 01-10-22
March 12, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Silky Creating can be silky-smooth sometimes. Beauty born of pain. Othersβ. Your own. People recognize when youβve put yourself...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Colorful - 01-09-22
March 12, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Colorful Life and living, creativity at its best, is innately colorful. But some people choose to see the world in black and...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Shop - 01-08-22
March 12, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Shop Think of storytelling like going into a shop. You wander the aisles for a while, picking up this, choosing that, setting...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Utopian - 01-07-22
February 24, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Utopian You donβt have to wait for a utopian bliss of purrfection to get started with your life as a creative. You simply need...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Worthless - 01-06-22
February 24, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Worthless Creativity and creative works in general, are not nearly as worthless as some people would choose to make them. If a...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Dramatic - 01-05-22
February 24, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Dramatic Donβt be afraid to be dramatic. Drama is the way we explore the world. Drama is the stories we tell others.Drama is the...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Smooth - 01-04-22
February 24, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Smooth The road to a creative life is not always smooth, but it is a road. A road you wish to travel? Thatβs a different...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Righteous - 01-03-22
February 24, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Righteous I have a good case of righteous indignation when I hear people say that they canβt be a creative. Or even be creative....
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Joke - 01-02-22
February 24, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Joke Jokes are use-full, valuable in their place. Humor helps us survive and thrive in the harshest of places. However, that...
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: π Earn - 01-01-22
February 23, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Earn You donβt have to earn the right to be called a creative. Creating, the act of making, does that for you. It does not,...
kitten & crow: CREATE β the writerβs life: 01-01-22
January 20, 2022
βallo! Welcome to todayβs kitten & crow: CREATE!!!! Todayβs Prrrompt: Earn Todayβs Mewsing: You earn the right to be called a creative by doing it. Todayβs...
kitten & crow CREATE: Smooth - 01-04-22
January 4, 2022
βallo! Welcome to todayβs kitten & crow: CREATE!!!! prrrompt! Below, you will see our responses to the prrrompt as well as an invitation to share with us...
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