We were invited to participate in the “My Writing Process Tour” by our friend the lovely Cathy Keisha and Mom TW from Stunning Keisha. C.K. is a self-proclaimed ghetto kitty who once lived on the street. She’s been blogging since 2009 and says that her blog is all about entertainment. If you don’t know her, you are missing out on lots of fun and laughs. C.K. claims that what sets her apart from other blogging cats is her catitude. She adds, “I’m not afraid to tell it like it is. My fans and followers trust me to tell them what makes me purr and what makes me hiss.”
After accepting C.K.’s invitation, we also were invited by Kitty Cat Chronicles and another bloggy friend. But as with Astrid and Lisbeth’s birthday, I have forgotten who that was. If you are that someone and visit us today, please leave a comment so I can acknowledge you as well.
As with all of these things, there are some rules to be followed and questions to be answered. I may be forgetful, but I am a rule follower. The first RULE requires me to link back to the writer who tagged me for this tour. Click on the graphic above and you will be immediately whisked away to C.K.’s blog.
RULE number two requires me to answer three questions, so here goes!
1) What am I working on?
We are sponsoring a kitty from PAWS named Swizzle. You can see her in our sidebar. We are hoping to find her a new home by featuring her periodically on the blog and will continue to sponsor her until this happens. You can see her again in our Sunday Selfies Blog Hop next weekend. And speaking of that: This was something I had been working on getting started and it debuted this past Sunday. You can click on the badge at the left to be teleported there. It is my fervent hope that this will grow as more readers find out about it.
I have an idea fermenting right now for a book featuring Mauricio. I don’t want to say much more about it until I am further along.
Finally, I am working on becoming more organized so I don’t forget to post about important things like my kitties birthdays or events such as “Blog the Change for Animals.” The kitties’ dad gave me a 2015 calendar this morning, and I am going to start putting dates in it right now.
2) Why do I write what I do?
The slogan for The Cat on My Head is: This is a website dedicated to the mostly comical antics of the eight felines currently residing in the household and their nine predecessors.
When I began the blog my intent was to write about this and nothing else. I believe this remains the current focus, but I have expanded into writing book, product (and an upcoming art) reviews.
I now feature posts about Cat Scouts on a somewhat regular basis as that has become a huge part of Mauricio’s day-to-day life.
When I started out, I featured an old, previously published, cat-centric poem of mine in the sidebar. Since then I have featured a variety of poems, stories and songs written by either Mauricio (with my help) or myself. This will always be a part of the blog no matter what direction it might take in the future.
3) How does my writing process work?
When I began, the blog was all about the narrative. When I completed the writing, I would search my archive of photos for ones appropriate for that specific post. Over time, I have started writing more to fit the photos of the kitties, but for me it is still about the “story.”
I am terrible about writing ahead as I am deadline driven and must have that threat to motivate me. Most posts (like this one) are written the day before they are published. In the beginning, when I published only about three times per week on average, I usually wrote and published on the same day. I always have ideas for upcoming posts floating around in my head where most are preliminarily composed while I am doing something else such as swimming, biking or trying to fall asleep. Occasionally I will write a draft to be completed at a later time. Sometimes I will get back to it, and other times it is abandoned.
I am obsessed with good grammar and spelling. As I once made my living writing, these are skills I have honed and try to adhere to at all times. Not being perfect (damn it!), I do publish posts with mistakes and will always correct and update when I find them. I also have the kitties’ dad, if available, read posts before publishing to help catch any errors I may have missed.
RULE number three requires me to pass this on to three other writers.
So many of you have already done this or may have it on your agenda, so I hope I am including three of you who are not in either of these categories and are willing to do it.
I am challenging: Mom Julie and Ashton, Newton and Pierre, Sometime’s Cats Herd You, Mum Sherri-Ellen and sisfur Nylablue, Nylablue & Sherri-Ellen’s Purrfect Pad, and Mom Linda and Savvy and Sage, Savannah’s Paw Tracks. Click on any badge to visit these blogs.
Hurray! Your writing style puts ours to shame. Can’t wait to see what you are doing next with Mau! Your blog is always wonderful.
Marty and Mom
Yow Aunti Janet we enjoyed reedin diz post n we DID get yer email…..Mum bin sick fer 3 dayz n slowlee getting bettur. Now we CANNOT get into our emailz…*sighz*
Mum told me to tell ya she will fink ’bout doin diz challenge; she needz to feel bettur tho’. Sowwy we tooked so long to get over here.
Haz bin a topsy turvy sorta week 😉
Much lub Nylablue =^,,^= n Mum 🙂 too
This was a very interesting post, Janet. It’s always fascinating to see what makes others tick. I’m a grammar pedant too and even when texting I use all the correct words. It hurts me to use txtspk!!! lol
I enjoyed reading your responses. Our question #3 answers are about the same. TW dies if she sees a typo—or widow—after the post goes live. A century in magazine production and typesetting will do that to you. Thanks for participating.
So tasty! That seems to be irresistible.
I love this blog tour so much and it sounds like you have some really exciting projects in the works!
I did so enjoy you sharing your writing process. It’s always fun to see how others create.
Sloppy licks,
Shoko
We enjoyed learning about your writing process and are excited about a potential book featuring Mauricio!
We’re always interested in reading the writing process of bloggers we love ! Purrs
That was fun and we are glad you were a part of the tour!
We learned a lot about your process and it’s amazing how over time we find our “voice” and our reasons for writing.
We’ve enjoyed reading about everybuddy’s writing process. We don’t have much a process, really. But we were asked to pawticipate in this challenge and we’ll do our best to describe our non-process. 🙂
Whatever you are doing works. I can relate to working better on a deadline. Fortunately, except for my Photo Friday posts, I just write when I have the time and an idea of something to write about.
Well, we have been avoiding taking this challenge on as a blog post. I don’t think Mom L does much at all in the way of ‘planning’…but ME…I plan, create, dream…and then transmit to her where all my work sits forever!!! Once I blogged every day; now I am lucky I can get Mom L to post 3x a week. But, we will take on this challenge and post very soon…from one cat with a deadline driven human to 8 cats with a deadline driven human…wish me luck
We just LOVE reading about the process of other bloggers! Great post! And thank you for helping Pia and Dexter celebrate their love anniversary today! Purrs…
I really enjoyed reading about your writing process. I, too, am deadline driven, so I’ve always had a difficult time getting posts done ahead of time. However, that is one of my goals! All of us over here are excited about a Mauricio book!! That is very cool. We can’t wait to see what happens with that! You know that we love you all and your blog and always look forward to your posts. You do such a marvelous job with everything – pictures, stories, poems, now blog hops! So many great things over here. Sampy sends Astrid so many kisses, there isn’t even a word for the number. We are all sending hugs and love!
Hi! I could have sworn I’ve been to this blog before but after reading through some of
the post I realized it’s new to me. Nonetheless, I’m definitely happy I found it and
I’ll be bookmarking and checking back often!
Great post! I think you should write a book.
Super post! A book about Mauricio??????????? The THUD you heard was Allie!!!!
The Florida Furkids with special smoochies to (soon to be even more famous) Mau from Allie
Great post! Thanks for the nomination. We’ll have to work on this and get something posted about our writing process, too. We may not have time until the weekend (lots of important snoozing to do this week), so look for it next week!
Well done! This is a fun challenge to do – we did this a while back – but it really does make you stop and think about what our goals are, how far we’ve come, what the future might hold – all the things that we thought about initially when we started out on this blogging journey!
Hugs, Pam (with Sam)
We love your blog and we all make mistakes no matter how vigilant we are the odd opps slips through now and again. Have a terrific Tuesday.
Best wishes Molly
My human is deadline driven too – that’s why I make her help me post every day. It keeps her in practice!
Meowmy uses sticky post it notes and old envelopes to jot down her meager ideas fur us, MOL! Not furry purrfessional at all!!
Very enjoyable post. It was interesting to read the thought processes that go into your blogging. I really enjoy your blog! Hug.