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Thirteen-year-old, planning to bake a cake: “Do you want cake?”

Seven-year-old: “Meow!”

Thirteen: “Oh, you don’t want cake…”

Seven, exasperated: “Do you not understand cat-language?!?”

Best part of being a writer: getting cover art

Worst part: writing back of book blurbs

“Kitten claw everything
Hear her deep in mattress”

—texts I apparently sent to my spouse, early this morning, still mostly asleep & hoping he’d come take the kitten away to entertain her in ways that didn’t involve chewing on my hand

Friend: I’m looking for a new clock

Me: Here’s a link to a dragon clock on Amazon!

Friend: It needs to be silent… Continue reading “Dragon Clocks and Lamps”

One of the nice things about working on a sequel to The Snake’s Song is that it gives me a reason to listen to the playlist I listened to while writing it again. It’s a good playlist, and it helps get me back into the characters and world.

How to write:‬

‪—get kitten‬
‪—dangle feathers‬

‪Look, if you measure in word count, sure, this strategy may not be the MOST effective. But if you measure in HAPPY KITTENS, it’s much better.‬ Continue reading “Happy Kitten –> Happy Writing”

My life has been a bowl of chaos ice cream during this pandemic, and then my dog died, so we got a new kitten… Basically, we put some chaos whipped cream, chocolate sauce, cherries, and sprinkles on top of the chaos ice cream to make a chaos sundae.

Me: Here! See my new kitten!

*tilts camera down*

Kitten: plays charmingly on my lap Continue reading “Zoom meetings with a kitten…”

The kitten wants scritches. The keyboard needs typing. You must choose.‬

‪Kitten or writing?‬

‪You only have enough hands for one…‬

The thirteen-year-old comes in to find me watching the forest fire scene from Bambi. Specifically just the forest fire scene. Looks at me quizzically.

Me: “Research. For the novel.”

Thirteen: “Ah. I wondered.”