Apologies for the site outage! We were changing hosts and it took a few days to find a new one and get everything back online. I had no idea so many of you read my blog.
Apart from getting a bad cold that left me unable to do much but lie on the couch for the past two days, not much has happened since LRBurt.com went offline, apart from my discovery of Why Writers Keep Cats.
They are, you see, the perfect excuse for not writing.
An empty Word document is a very intimidating sight, and for me, one of the biggest causes of writer’s block. That blinking cursor mocks me. It’s like a perpetual wink: “Hooray, five words! Fantastic use of an hour!”
Also, and this will sound very artsy-fartsy, I feel a physical disconnect from the story when I’m typing and words appear on a screen. I like to write in a notebook and feel the pen between my fingers and the paper beneath my palm and the cramp in my fist and the headache from trying to read my own writing later on. Well, okay, so maybe I’m not really that into hand cramps and headaches. But pressing a pen to paper is generally my preferred mode of writing, even though it’s slower.
Except that notebooks are, apparently:
A) very good kitty snacks
and
B) very good kitty napping spots.
At this very moment Dorrie is sprawled across my open notebook from which I was attempting to type up some handwritten notes. There are teeth marks in the corner of one of the pages, and the spiral is a bit mangled. I am mildly exasperated by this (and a tad concerned about whether she’s getting enough fiber in her kitten chow), but not so much so that I’m not thinking how stinking cute she is, all curled up with her head resting on her little paws, and it would be shame to disturb her.
Also, I am just glad to know that I have an excuse for never getting work done: the cat wouldn’t let me!
Who would argue with that? Everyone knows cats rule the world, and you can’t stop a cat from doing what she wants.
And this is why writers keep cats. Because behing bossed by a cat puts us in so much more favorable a light than, “I am lazy and uninspired.”
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