Yesterday, Tiger went out for coffee with some Very Most Excellent Writer People.
One of them was The Tall Man, a phenomenal poet and now prose writer. Cackle Mummy is very glad to finally know The Tall Man, after years of watching and admiring him as he chaired and performed his marvellous wordsmithery at poetry slams around the state.
The other was the Beautiful Ms S, a writer of YA and historical fiction, on the cusp of having her first novel published. BMS is just about to complete her Masters in the art of writing, and Cackle Mummy admires her immensely, as well as valuing her kindness and the magical sparkle in her eyes.
Tiger loves her too.
It was our first catchup, post Lovely Miss K venturing off to Escapades in Edinburgh, and her presence was sorely missed, but Tiger enjoyed very much discussing poetry and character creation and approaches to commencing a novel with The Tall Man and BMS. She enjoyed learning more about her Mummy's Other Life, and being part of her first Writer's Group.
Who knows if Tiger will grow up to share her Mummy's love of writing. It's certain she already loves reading. I hope one day she will read not only her Mummy's work but that of her Mummy's wonderful friends, The Tall Man, BMS, and all the other beautiful people Mummy has been privileged to meet through a shared love of the written word.
Writers make for awesome people. Cackle Mummy is lucky to have so many of them in her life. She is lucky they are part of Tiger's life too.
She hopes that, as Tiger grows up, writers, and the characters they create, will be Tiger's very best friends, as they have been for her Mummy.
The writing life. Gosh darn it, it's a lovely one*
~ Love, Miss Cackle
* Not quite as lovely as the life of the Mummy of Tiger. But close!
1 comments:
Kate, you are simply, simply delightful.
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