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Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Disarm - 03-28-22
March 28, 2022
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: π Giant - 03-27-22
March 27, 2022
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: π Foolish - 03-26-22
March 26, 2022
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: π Posess - 03-25-22
March 25, 2022
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: π Deliver - 03-24-22
March 24, 2022
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: π Spare - 03-23-22
March 23, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Spare Many of us, when we begin to write, do so in our βspare timeβ. Those of us who go on to write seriously, realize thereβs...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Earthquake - 03-22-22
March 22, 2022
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: π Utopian - 03-21-22
March 21, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Utopian Utopian stories have their uses, I suppose. Stories of a purrfection we are unlikely to achieve β or desire to, if we...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Blade - 03-20-22
March 20, 2022
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. π π¦π¦π₯π¦πΈπ¦π₯π¦π¦ π Caws...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Seed - 03-19-22
March 19, 2022
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: π Tire - 03-18-22
March 18, 2022
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: π Tire - 03-18-22
March 18, 2022
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: π Snails - 03-17-22
March 17, 2022
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: π Aboriginal - 03-16-22
March 16, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Aboriginal Aboriginal wisdom is to be respected. Wisdom β and history β did not begin with you. π π¦π¦π₯π¦πΈπ¦π₯π¦π¦ π Caws to Action:...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Intend - 03-15-22
March 15, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Intend Sometimes your words β your best efforts β will not come out as you intend. They will lead to words of correction,...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Wine - 03-14-22
March 14, 2022
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: π Military - 03-13-22
March 14, 2022
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: π Pretend - 03-12-22
March 14, 2022
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: π Narrow - 03-11-22
March 14, 2022
Mewsings On a Writer's Life: Narrow Narrow minds often create narrow words. Narrow words do little to change minds β or worlds. Widen your words β and your...
Mewsings on a Writer's Life: π Trees - 03-10-22
March 14, 2022
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...
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