Today I’m thrilled to have Australian author, Sandra Peut, as our Write Life guest blogger. Sandra’s writing is characteristically upbeat and fresh (a lot like her really 🙂 ) and today she’s taking a festive approach to her Write Life reflections – twelve days of them in fact. So warm up your larynx and join us for some ‘write’ fun!
The Twelve Days of Writing
On the first day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
The value of strong coffee
On the second day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the third day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the fourth day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the fifth day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Read many things
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the sixth day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Calm my temper fraying
Read many things
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the seventh day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Midnight lights dimming
Calm my temper fraying
Read many things
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the eighth day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Sleep when a-wilting
Midnight lights dimming
Calm my temper fraying
Read many things
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the ninth day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Editors’ enhancing
Sleep when a-wilting
Midnight lights dimming
Calm my temper fraying
Read many things
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the tenth day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Keep on rereading
Editors’ enhancing
Sleep when a-wilting
Midnight lights dimming
Calm my temper fraying
Read many things
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the eleventh day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Take care when retyping
Keep on rereading
Editors’ enhancing
Sleep when a-wilting
Midnight lights dimming
Calm my temper fraying
Read many things
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
On the twelfth day of writing
At Christmas, it taught me
Excuses overcoming
Take care when retyping
Keep on rereading
Editors’ enhancing
Sleep when a-wilting
Midnight lights dimming
Calm my temper fraying
Read many things
Vary my words
Find good pens
Scheduling push-and-shoves
And the value of strong coffee
Truth in humour! Love it.
Thanks, Cathie. 🙂
Now I have that song on in my head!! Thanks for the share.
Anytime, Meredith! 🙂
Hi Sandra and Adele,
That’s awesome. I’m glad it was shared this week, of all weeks. Excellent adaptation. Wishing you and yours a blessed Christmas.
Thanks, Paula. Merry Christmas to you and your family, too.
Thank you and trust you’ve had a wonderful Christmas too, Paula. Yes, it was a well themed post – thanks, Sandra. 🙂
Hehehe… Now can we have the video vision of you singing it 🙂
Michelle, unfortunately, making a video would take my last remaining reserves of time and energy (and I still haven’t wrapped my gazillion presents!). Fun idea, though – perhaps you’d like to make a video? 🙂
LOL Sandy – I think we should make that our anthem at the next writers’ conference. Some good wisdom in there among he laughs though. 🙂
I might leave the anthem writing up to you, Nola – I was just struggling to find some writerly advice that rhymed with the original song words!