Lines I am liking today: ‘I have never believed anyone who has tried to improve me by saying, “I’m telling you this for your own good.” They aren’t. They’re telling me for their own satisfaction. If you need a person to improve, look elsewhere.’ #writing #WritingCommunity #writers #writer #books

Lines I am liking today: ‘Be careful what you destroy. In parallel, be careful what messages you leave behind.’ A Book of Lives - Margaret Atwood #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #writerscommunity #writer #books #bookstagram #book #Reading #readingcommunity #goallin #Readers

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First new born lamb sighting of the year and in typical Welsh weather fashion we have also had a dusting of snow. Hope they pad out quickly, their little lamb suits still had lots of folds to grow into 🐑 #canals #canallife #canal #lambs #sheep

Well the collar is off - second time's a charm and although he's definitely more lopsided than he was originally, the foot now seems to have healed 🙏🙌🤞 He's also now really good at giving us the furry middle finger 🐈 #cat #cats #catlover #catlovers #catlife #gingercats

A slow lazy Valentine’s sofa sausaging with the Teddy Tiger. Should have been doing lots but I’m not sorry at all ❤️ #ValentinesDay2026 #ValentinesDay #valentine  #cats #catlover #catlovers #cat #caturday #catlife

First short story submitted for 2026 , Was I happy with it? Nope. Did I run out of time? Yep. Am I still defeated by endings? 💯 But then I had a chat with my editor and when I asked was it better to submit something than not enter at all. His response was - abso-purring-lutely! #writingcommunity

My sentiments exactly: ‘I want my blue verandah and the glitter of the sea And I tell you one and all that your winter’s not for me!’ Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson #WritingCommunity #writing #writer #writers #writerscommunity #books #reading #readingcommunity #book #kidlit

Lines I am liking today: ‘Malcolm found that if he asked the right questions Eric would tell him things that were supposed to be secret, because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.’ #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #writerscommunity #Writer #reading #books

Week 2 of the collar having to be back on because a certain someone split his foot surgery back open and it's going to be at least another week to go...I'll break that to him later, he's having a #Caturday nap. He's very clever he can read with his eyes closed #Cat #cats #catlife #catlovers

‘Adults get to do whatever they decide to do - even to the point of their own self-destruction or death.And as my sponsor always reminds me when I am about to overstep into someone else’s territory: “God didn’t bring anyone into your life for you to control them.’ #writing #write #writingcommunity

Lines I am liking today: ‘he would never have dreamed, after those few minutes, of doing anything to upset that little child. He was her servant for life.’ La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #writerscommunity #writer #books #yafiction #BookLovers #readingcommunity

‘Astra became an owl &perched on the prow,her feathers shedding the water in a way she’d discovered when she was trying to become an animal that didn’t yet exist.The best she could do so far was take one animal &add an aspect of another,so now she was an owl with duck’s feathers.’ #writingcommunity

This is the unimpressed face of someone who has somehow managed to reopen their paw surgery and so now has to go back to wearing the watermelon collar of shame. You lick the crime you have to do the time! 🙀🐾 #cat #cats #catlife #catlover #catlovers

Never had a business card before. Does that mean I am officially a grown up? Loving my job as a Project Officer for the National Literacy Trust. Living in Torfaen, Newport or Caerphilly and want to come along to a Chartists workshop find out more here: literacytrust.org.uk/communities/... #NLT

Lines I am liking today: ‘Tasha’s voice was soft as the whisper of snowflakes, and crackly as frost in the night. The sound of it chilled her.’ The Snow Girl - Sophie Anderson #writingcommunity #writing #writer #writers #writerscommunity #reading #readingcommunity #kidlit #books #book #booklover

When you fall asleep halfway through washing your tail and end up looking like Basil Brush 🦊 #cat #cats #catlover #catlovers #CatsOfTwitter #gingercats

The collar is off and someone is very happy and purry and dribbly about it. Happy Caturday 😺🐈🙌 #Caturday #cat #cats #CatsOfTwitter #CatsOfX #catlover #catlovers #catlife #gingercats #gingercat

I have taken the Teddy Tiger's collar off for five mins to give him some respite, he was so happy and immediately curled like a little mouse into me. He's already snoring! 💤🐈 #cat #cats #cats_of_instagram #catlife #catlover #catlovers #gingercats

Lines I am liking today: ‘morning after morning broke in a kind of grey twilight and melted back again into the long winter might - but the sun never showed himself. He was lost, simply lost, perhaps he had rolled out into space.’ #Writer #writingcommunity #writing #writers #writerscommunity #books

Breaking it to the Teddy Tiger that he has to suffer the collar for a fourth week 🐈 #Caturday #cats #CatsOnX #cat #catlife #catlover #catlovers #gingercats

The ever brilliant Atwood wit: ‘war clouds were gathering. The coming storm was about to break, changing everyone and everything in its path. And I was about to be born. (Ominous music, you apply this either to the Second World War or to my birth, whichever you find more fitting.’ #writing #Writer

Not a very productive first day back on the writing front, just felt really tired and my brain wouldn't click into writing mode. My editor was as committed as ever though! #catlife #writer #writinglife #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #cats #catlife #catlover #writers #writerslife #catlovers

Lines I am liking today: ‘You’re just letting all this happen, aren’t you? Letting it unfold, like an opening hand. Despite my resistance, without my command.’ All The Way To The River - Elizabeth Gilbert #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #Writer #writerscommunity #reading #readingcommunity #books

Woke up to a dusting of the white stuff this morning ❄️ #snow #frost #canals #canal #canallife #monday

The canal was frozen almost all the way between Cwmbrân and Goytre today. #canals #canal #canallife

Lines I am liking today: ‘“Shall I tell her about the Dweller Under the Sink?” Moomintroll thought. “Perhaps I’d better not.’ Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson #Writer #WritingCommunity #writing #writerscommunity #writers #moomins #reading #readingcommunity #tovejansson #readers #moomin

‘Really, this winter’s tale ought to stop exactly at this point. All this about the first spring night and the wind rushing about in the drawing-room, makes a magnificent ending. And then everybody could think what they pleased about what happened afterwards.’ Moomintroll Midwinter #WritingCommunity

Lines I am liking today: ‘“It’s a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you’re not afraid of them any more and would like to have a little fun.”’ Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson #WritingCommunity #writing #writer #writers #writerscommunity #moomins #Reading #readingcommunity

When your mum keeps taking your photo and all you want to do is sit under the Christmas tree and enjoy the winter sunshine in peace 🐈 #Caturday #cats #CatsOfTwitter #cat #CatLovers #catlover

Lines I am liking today: ‘Believe me: there’s nothing more dangerous in life than to become an indoor sitter.” “Oh?” Said Moomintroll. “Yes. It gives you all kinds of ideas.”’ Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson #writing #WritingCommunity #writer #writers #writerscommunity #readingcommunity #moomins

I am in a permanent ground hog day of doing this every few minutes, with a lot of back chat on his end. It's going to be a looooong two weeks! 🐈 #cats #catlife #calover #cat #catlovers #gingercats #gingercat

My Teddy Tiger is back home, exhausted, missing a toe and a whole lot of fur. The operation went smoothly and now he has to rest and stay off it for the next fortnight so that his foot can heal. All I wanted for Christmas was for him to be okay so I got my Christmas wish #cats #cat #catlovers

Lines I am liking today: ‘Rayya. I still sometimes have trouble saying her name and breathing at the same time.’ All The Way To The River - Elizabeth Gilbert #writing #WritingCommunity #writers #writer #reading #readingcommunity #readerscommunity #books #book #readers #memoir

Lines I am liking today: ‘Rayya: whom I never saw coming, had not planned for, and could not control.’ All The Way to The River - Elizabeth Gilbert #writing #WritingCommunity #writers #writer #writerscommunity #reading #readingcommunity #books #book #memoir #ElizabethGilbert

Lines I am liking today: ‘All the clocks were running again. Moomintroll felt less lonely after he had wound them up. As time was lost anyway, he set them at different hours. Perhaps one of them would be right, he thought.’ Moominland Midwinter #WritingCommunity #writing #Writer #writers #reading

Just your average work day dressed as a cat! Would you like to be in the National Literacy Trust’s pantomime they said. You can play Dick Whittington’s cat. It would have been rude to say no. The Teddy Tiger was less impressed. #nationalliteracytrust #panto #catlife #pantomine #nlt

‘she hated the theatre, with its dressing room full of costumes that each came with their own accent and mannerisms (Morrigan did warn her not to try in the Puss-in-Boots costume; Cadence was still meowing and scratching behind her ears an hour after she’d taken it off)’ #writing #writingcommunity

Lines I am liking today: ‘You can’t avoid the time-space you’re living in. Nobody can. Your writing will always be done in it and will be connected to it, even if your book is set on another planet or in another century. It cannot be otherwise.’ #WritingCommunity #writing #writer #writers #reading

I can’t think of many rural terms I like more than “witches’ knickers” - to describe old black bin bags caught in fences, hedgerows and trees.

Lines I am liking today: ‘no one else had a single worm in their tray - not even Tony-the-Nose-Picker, who likes to collect all kinds of strange things in his tray.’ The Boy at the Back of the Class - Onjali Q. Raúf #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #writer #writerscommunity #kidlit #reading

‘Without Moomintroll knowing a thing about it, at that moment his velvet skin decided to start growing woollier. It decided to become, by and by, a coat of fur for winter use. That would take some time, but at least the decision was made. And that’s always a good thing.’ #writing #writingcommunity

Lines I am liking today: ‘Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Every question-and-answer session at a book event is an illusion; it’s the one doing the living, not the one doing the writing, who is present on such occasions.’ #writing #writingcommunity

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?

Lines I am liking today: ‘Mum says people without imaginations are dead inside. I don’t think Josie is dead anywhere - she talks too much.’ The Boy at the Back of the Class - Onjali Q. Raúf #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #Writer #writerscommunity #kidlit #reading #books #readingcommunity #book

Lines I am liking today: ‘I’ve already been told off for pressing it in the middle of maths class this year, but if you can’t press a barking dog button in maths then I don’t see the point.’ The Boy at the Back of the Class - Onjali Q. Raúf #writingcommunity #writing #writers #writer #reading #books

A new sleeping on his face pose. The Teddy Tiger does seem to like sleeping with his head lower than his body, his brother used to do the same. Is he a bat or a cat? 🦇🐈 #cat #cats #CatsOfTwitter #catlover #catlovers #catlife

Lines I am liking today: ‘The good doctor took him to barb his hair too, so that his head now look shrink, like a dot on his thin neck that made the whole of him look like the small letter i;’ And So I Roar - Abi Daré #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #writer #ReadingCommunity #reading #writer

Lines I am liking today: ‘The body double appears as soon as you start writing. How can it be otherwise? There’s the daily you, and then there’s the other person who does the actual writing. They aren’t the same. But in my case, there are more than two. There are lots.’ #writing #WritingCommunity

Lines I am liking today: ‘She fell asleep almost the moment her head touched the pillow. Then, what felt like half a second later, she was awake. She was awake, and not in her bed. She was awake, and not in her bed, and not alone.’ Wundersmith - Jessica Townsend #WritingCommunity #writers #writing