By Judith Ayn. 2014 began as a very bad year. My world turned topsy-turvy with early retirement from work due to stress-related health problems and the death of my sixteen-year-old cat. I was home alone, with too much time on my hands to think about losses. In April, I started looking for a cat to […]
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What My Cats Really Want for Christmas
By Debbie De Louise As the holidays approach, cat lovers are bombarded with advertisements for gifts for their kitties. These range from catnip-filled toys that are touted as purr-fect stocking stuffers to expensive cat furniture, motorized games, and other fancy items that most felines will use once and then abandon or only take interest in […]
8 Things I Learned from My Cats about Writing Haiku
by Lee Wardlaw 1. When poised at a hole, remain still – use your ears, eyes, nose, whiskers and mouth to detect a lurking creature. In other words: OBSERVE Observation is crucial to haiku. One must quiet the mind and use all five (or more!) senses to absorb, appreciate, and anchor the moment. A dog […]
Improve Your Pacing, Line by Line
By Kris Bock. “Gripping.” “A page turner.” “I couldn’t put it down.” Why do some books get this praise? Characters, plot, setting, and theme are all part of pacing. Compelling characters mean readers will care about them. Stakes that are high and vitally important to the main character help readers root for those characters to […]
Who are the Cat Writers’ Association? Anita Aurit
An interview with CWA member Anita Aurit, by Mollie Hunt. Who are the Cat Writers’ Association is a series of interviews with CWA members, but not your usual who, what, and where discussion. I like to ask a different set of questions and am always amazed by the answers. I hope you are too. Our […]
Who are the Cat Writers’ Association? Nancy Peterson
An interview with CWA member and former President Nancy Peterson by Mollie Hunt. Who are the Cat Writers’ Association is a series of interviews with CWA members, but not your usual who, what, and where discussion. I like to ask a different set of questions and am always amazed by the answers. I hope you […]
How the Cat in the Blue Virus Mask Changed My Life
by Linda Wright It’s all his fault. His fault that my writing career took a 180 degree turn from “serious” Private Investigator (PI) novels, in which my cat-loving animal rights sleuth mends the world, to . . . cat silliness. One particularly miserable day in 2020, I was sure, as were many of us, that […]
5 Ways to Repurpose Your Content
by Emily Hall As writers and content creators, we are always striving to get the most mileage out of our work. When we’ve put so much time and effort into writing a blog post, article, or book, we might as well make the most of it, right?! Not to mention the struggle of having to […]
The 2023 CWA Communications Conference
By Andrea Dorn, Cat Writers’ Association Vice President and 2023 CWA Annual Conference Chair. At the Cat Writers’ Association’s 2023 Virtual Communications Conference on October 14-15, learn from experienced and knowledgeable presenters at an established, well-respected writers’ conference. Hone your writing techniques or learn about the latest high-tech writing tools from experts, all with your […]
How Joining the Cat Writers’ Association Started Me on My Publishing Path
By Debbie De Louise. As a child, I loved to read and write. I also loved my cats. My parents were animal lovers, so I grew up surrounded by pets, both dogs and cats. During my college years at LIU/Post where I studied English and then library and information science, I wrote a daily diary, […]