Writers as Animals

[Paul Whybrow]

I've just finished my third novel in a series of psychological thrillers set in Cornwall and am in the drudgery of editing it. The plot involves three murders, including a mummified corpse and a drowned pensioner who's found to be carrying a stone baby.

As subplots, there's livestock rustling and sightings of the Beast of Bodmin Moor, the legendary big cat. Real life supported my storyline, for a lynx escaped from a local zoo and there were a dozen reports of people seeing mountain lions.

I'm very much a recluse, and it occurred to me as I wrote about menacing and solitary exotic wild cats, that were I a writer in animal form, then I'd be a mountain lion. This species actually has more names than any other, more than forty, including puma, cougar, panther, catamount, painter and mountain screamer. I've only tried one other name, a pen name that I soon abandoned.

What Type of 'Animal' Writer are You?(Sarah Colliver)

What animal would you be?

Something tells me, cats will be a popular choice....

 

[Katie-Ellen]

According to this, a tortoise.

 

[Marc Joan]

A blobfish, of course:

 

[Les of Edith Weston]

OMG - I'm all of them- except the Tiger!

 

[Boopadoo]

Space monkey...

 

[Chase Gamwell]

Can I be a chimera...? Is that cheating?

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Yes! Cheating!

 

[Jay Aitch]

I'm a tiger, especially when I come to dinner.

 

[Emurelda]

I'm a bit of a Kangaroo that hops around idea to idea not committing before morphing into an Ant where I bounce the ideas among other writers and then Squirrel those ideas to hibernate long enough to when I finally complete the novel

 

[Sea-shore]

Tortoise. Slowly but surely.

 

[Patricia D]

Well, I took a test and it says, otter. I'm good with that. I like otters. I am an Otter!

 

[KG Christopher]

I am snoopy from charlie brown

 

[James Marinero]

I am snoopy from charlie brown

Too droll by far!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Otters, adorbs. Even if one did chew off two of Terry Nutkin's fingers. Marvellous animals.

 

[Morgan.A.Collins]

According to this list, I'm a monkey-kanga-cat-squirrel-tiger. Oh cool. I wonder how that animal might look like in real life.

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

It says there I'm a monkey. Ridiculous. I am, and always have been, a wombat.

 

[Carol Rose]

MEOW!!

Cat here.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

OMG - I'm all of them- except the Tiger!

Someone please draw what Les would look like.