Writer's Workshop: There's a Cat on My Head (and Other Stories)
When I started blogging, about a dozen years ago (on my old blog ), I had the great good fortune to stumble across one of the best, funniest bloggers with one of the best, funniest blogs around... Mama's Losin' It . Every Tuesday, Mama Kat would publish a list of writing prompts and bloggers from far and wide would pick one, write a post, and then link it on her site on Thursday. It was cool. And in the heyday of blogging, back before everything was about advertising and selling stuff - when Blogland was a real community - we'd all read each other's posts and comment on them and just generally be nice and encouraging. I made loads of friends that way (friends, I might add, with whom I've stayed in contact and even visited in person [even crossed the Atlantic to meet!]). It was way cool. And I wrote many, many posts from Kat's weekly prompts. Alas, things changed. Blogging changed. Facebook took over and Blogland became a place that I only droppe...