MStewart

#WritingCat has a stand in today.

A dandelion seed with the words, if you have complex PTSD say it with me - I deserved better.

#grace

I am as I create. A colorful silhouette of a human figure turning into a tree against a black background.

#CPTSD

I am as I create.

Beads of water caught within dandelion fluff

#WritingCommunity
A Poet's autobiography is his Poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
~ Yevgeniy Yevhtushenko

Two cats on a window sill looking out at a snow covered landscape.

#WritingCat
That is a lot of snow.
Well, only thing to do it write.
Right?

A single lighted tea light in the dark.

#grace

We were never mean to carry
The shame that goes bone deep
For any reason,
For no reason,

It is not ours to keep.

A little girl curled into a ball. text reads - #CPTSD: Complex post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychological disorder that can develop in response to prolonged, repeated experience of trauma in a context where the individual has little or no chance of escape

#CPTSD Just in case you are wondering what I am always banging on about.

#WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

It's perfectly OK to write garbage as long as you edit brilliantly. Quote from C.J. Cherryh

It's perfectly OK to write garbage as long as you edit brilliantly.
~ C.J. Cherryh

Your manuscript isn't the only thing you need to edit.
(Ask me how I know.)

Two cats in a cardboard box

#WritingCat and sidekick are filling up the hours until you get to work.

#grace
When you have found yourself you will know that compassion is the greatest form of strength.

Text: Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. ~Christine Morgan

#cptsd Something many of us need to work on is forming some boundaries. Survival as children often meant always agreeing and being agreeable. Learning how to know yourself, express yourself and to not compromise yourself for the sake of appeasement - is a skill we need to learn.

A dandelion emerging through parched earth

#WritingCommunity and #Writers

Remember: That little voice inside that says you can't do it... is lying.

A tiny black kitten.

#WritingCat wants you to get to work... She's gonna drag you there if necessary.

A lotus blossom with the quote: Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. ~Buddha

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.
~Buddha

#grace #healing

Text reads: When you grow up in a minefield where even the slightest breath out of place can produce an explosion, you learn to erase your needs. You learn alone is safe. That there is a certain hum in the air before an explosion, a tension you can feel on your skin. And you learn to ask, to check, to verify, to record, to explain everything ~ Because if you don't, if you aren't perfect--then the consequences fall.

When you grow up in a minefield where even the slightest breath out of place can produce an explosion, you learn to erase your needs. You learn alone is safe. That there is a certain hum in the air before an explosion, a tension you can feel on your skin....

A desk filled with letters. Text reads: there is a wonderful madness within the mind of a writer.

There is a wonderful madness within the mind of a writer.

#WritingCat: Ms. Jet would like a word.

#WritingCat: Ms. Jet would like a word.

A pink lotus blossom. Text reads: Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Quote from the Dalai Lama

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
~Dalai Lama

Never Forget
You have phenomenal courage.
To venture out to find new shores is a courageous act in defiance of your past.

Words as true today.

Pencil on a blank page

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The 100-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight The 100-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in just 24 h...

I'm pondering this ... Anyone done one of these?

#WritingCommunity

The 7th annual 100-word Microfiction Challenge by @nycmidnight.bsky.social kicks off on March 20th!

Learn more at nycmidnight.com/100

Writing Cat is expecting you.

#WritingCat is expecting you.

Wow, I haven't posted this one in years. <-- no exaggeration there.
But, damn, it is so true!

a woman is sitting at a table holding a cup of coffee and making a close one gesture . ALT: a woman is sitting at a table holding a cup of coffee and making a close one gesture .

Wow....
Just ran across a post about a lit agency. That was eye opening. I have never been so glad to have been turned down.

Ah, yes. Querying.
Would I be indulging in hyperbole if I referred to it as a writer's form of 'speed dating' hell?

A Gray tuxedo cat stretches on the couch.

Weekend is over. #WritingCat is getting a stretch in before getting to work.

A bonsai tree Text: We are the bonsai people

We are the bonsai people.
It can seem a strange thought, but the idea that has stuck with me.
We have given up so much of ourselves to survive.
We might never be 'what we were meant to be.'
But, that doesn't mean we don't have value or beauty of our own.

#ComplexPTSD #HealingJourney

Clay Does not lust for life. It waits until shaped by other hands. It passes through fire to shatter or harden. Then renamed again it waits for fulfillment. At first it carries expectant anticipation. Then doubt. Then bitterness. Then longing To return to being Clay

A bit more poetry.

Clay
Does not lust for life.
It waits until shaped by other hands.
It passes through fire to shatter or harden.
Then renamed again it waits for fulfillment.
At first it carries expectant anticipation.
Then doubt.
Then bitterness.
Then longing
To return to being
Clay