Friday Cat Blogging

Want to see a joke? It’s really funny. Watch!

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I gave her the tuna kit. Hee!

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That’s cruel.

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And NOT funny.

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Knocked me ded.

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I thought it was funny.

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You are WRONG! Not getting tuna is NEVER funny.

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Forget the jokes, how do I get da fissies?

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Guest cats by M&M and N.

 

Friday Cat Blogging

You’re not my real monkey and I don’t have to do a thing you say.

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True, but it might have food!

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Food is good.

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Food is insufficient reason to acquiesce to monkey hegemony.

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I don’t know monkey hegemony is working okay for me so far…

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Monkey hegemony is boring. Really really really boring.

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But it comes with BELLY RUBS! So, is all okay, yes?

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With thanks to the usual suspects for letting me put words in the mouths of their cats. See also: Matt, Mandy, Neil.

Belated Friday Cat Blogging

Plotting to get someone else to take over the world for me.

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That seems like a lot of steps…

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You don’t expect me to do any of the actual work myself, do you?

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Good point, world conquest is a lot of work.

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And work makes me all zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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That’s why the towelphants will win in the end!

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Friday Cat Blogging

We have their king, soon we will rule the world of cats!

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I think you may be confusing cats with underpants gnomes…

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There’s a difference?

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You’re not serious, right?

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Nope, I’m a hummingbird!

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You know what will clear that right up?

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This!

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Now, THAT’S cat humor!

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INORITE!?!

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Friday Cat Blogging

Box therapy.

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So, tell me how that makes you feel.

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Like a fox.

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All fluffy and eeeeeeebil!

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It makes me feel like a bridge over troubled monkeys.

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Let me tell you about my parents…

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Friday Cat Blogging

Ahhhhhhh, I’m about to be eaten by a monkey!

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You must chill.

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Like a snow machine.

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Totally!

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Easy for you to say, you’re a mushroom.

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Talking mushrooms…I’m out.

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Friends, Monkey, Country Cats, lend me your oranges!

You’re deeelicious oranges.

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This has been a random squirrel interlude, do not adjust your sets.

Friday Cat Blogging

OMFSM, did you see that?!?

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What?

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The mark of the cookie zombie!

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Dude, that’s just a butterfly…

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That’s what you say now, but when the moon is full and the mild cold…

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Bam!

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Worst ghost story ever.

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Writing and Stubborn

Writer World PSA: Rejections mean you’re doing writing right.
 
I have ~500 rejections, some very recent.
 
I also have 12 novels in print, 2 under contract, numerous short story publications, poems published, and even a science comic.
 
I had 91 rejections before my first sale. My 2nd sale was to a pro market that went under before it published. It was 6 years between my 1st short story sale and my 1st novel sale. Time and rejection are normal.
 
I started writing seriously in 1991. 1st short sale 1998. 1st novel sale 2005. Novels 11 and 12 came out in 2015. 13 and 14 are due to my editor in 2016.
 
I have 12 novels or partials out under submission right now reflecting 3 series and 3 stand-alones. I’m writing a spec book between the contract books just because.
 
Stubborn succeeds.
Don’t give up because your story got rejected. Don’t give up because you got a hundred rejections. Don’t give up.

Friday Cat Blogging (Oops I Missed it Again Edition)

Alas, little pink block. I chew it well.

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Chew it, chew it good!

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The hell…

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Don’t worry about Squirrel, he thinks he’s in an 80s music video.

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I never know what’s going on in these narratives.

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Good thing you’re a captive audience

Ahhhh!

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And that’s me looking for an exit.

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I’m looking for ALL YOUR PEANUT BUTTER ARE BELONG TO ME

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Squick and Squee As Cartoon Mice

My Brain, a Brief Illustration:

A) This thread needs a mouse saying squick squick squick.

1) Okay, someone with art skill needs to draw an obviously alarmed little mousy saying “Squick! Squick! Squick!”

2) Google tells me that the Squick Mouse is not a thing, and it clearly needs to be.

3) Actually there should probably be a pair of mice like comedy tragedy masks. Squick and Squee for different occasions.

4)…and now I’m picturing the mice Squick and Squee sitting in a theater box commenting on fan fiction plays like Statler and Waldorf at the Muppet show.