May You Always Never

It’s May Day, and of course Miss CP has her knickers in a wad. The beautiful spring day we had on Sunday has been replaced by typical Oregon liquid sunshine. Summer might be cancelled altogether. So what a writer who’s as grouchy as Miss Crankypants really needs on a gray cloudy overcast yuck-o day, are some reminders about the silver lining Mom used to talk about, in the tradition of the Irish:

  • MAY you always find yourself with deadlines, for this means someone is paying you to write.
  • MAY you never be without M and Ms as you write, for if you’re lucky they’ll melt in your mouth, not on your keyboard.
  • MAY you always find ways to mention your book in public, even if the conversation is about colonoscopies.
  • MAY you always have the wind at your back, unless it means you get whipped across the face by your hair.
  • MAY you never be without hair to whip, teeth to chew and spectacles to see. Especially spectacles like cats who fry mother boards or think your laptop is a heating pad.
  • MAY you always know at least one writer whose work, in your opinion, is worse than your own.

HAPPY MAY DAY!!

About Linda S. Clare

I'm an author, speaker, writing coach and mentor. I teach both fiction and nonfiction writing at Lane Community College and in the doctoral program as expert writing advisor for George Fox University. I love helping writers improve their craft and I'm both an avid reader and writer of stories about those with wounded hearts.

3 comments on “May You Always Never

  1. This wouldn’t be so funny if it weren’t so true! I live in daily fear that summer will indeed be cancelled, as it has been the last 2 years.
    I do like your first blessing: May you always have deadlines because it means you have writing work – oh, happy day!! and yes, I would much rather have the wind at my back that blowing the rain in my face as I walk, which is what happened last night.

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