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Cat Webling
Dec 20, 20202 min read
Taking a Guided Tour of the Fangirl Universe
Having been active in fandoms for nearly a decade now, I'm always interested in learning more about the weird, fun subculture that is...
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Cat Webling
Dec 12, 20203 min read
Books to Curl Up With on Cold Days
There's something about curling up on the couch when it's cold outside, a cup of tea in one hand and a favorite book in the other. Maybe...
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Cat Webling
Dec 10, 20202 min read
The Drop of the Ball
The year is finally, finally drawing to a close. It has felt for me, as I'm sure it's felt for many people, as if it would never end and...
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Cat Webling
Dec 1, 20205 min read
My First NaNoWriMo In Review
I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time. Here's how it went.
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Cat Webling
Nov 26, 20203 min read
I Am Grateful.
Right now, I want to talk about the things that have kept me going when it felt like the ground was slipping out from under my feet.
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Cat Webling
Nov 7, 20202 min read
In the Eye of a Hurricane
There has been a passage from a song in the musical Hamilton playing in my head today. In the eye of a hurricane There is quiet For just...
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Cat Webling
Nov 5, 20202 min read
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November - A Brief History of Guy Fawkes Day
The Gunpowder Plot's legacy lies on one man and a mask, a hundred years later.
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Cat Webling
Nov 3, 20202 min read
Introducing My New Novel!
“Endeavor 101 to Oasis 8, permission to dock in station five?” Static and silence. “Endeavor 101 to Oasis 8, do you copy?” “Are you...
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Cat Webling
Oct 27, 20201 min read
Here it is!
Sometimes the voices of the past are like ghosts in your future. Always waiting in the shadows to see you again. This collection of poems...
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Cat Webling
Oct 16, 20202 min read
Leaping into the World of Full-Time Professional Writing
If you'd told me a year ago that I was going to be making the sharp, terrifying transition into becoming a full-time professional writer...
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Cat Webling
Sep 7, 20208 min read
Why Counselors Should Advise a Career in the Arts
I’ve always been academically gifted. I was a straight-A student in a school where the lowest A-grade score was 94 out of 100. I held...
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Cat Webling
Aug 24, 20203 min read
I Remember Addie - A Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
What would you sell your soul for? I want to believe that my answer is “nothing.” That I would never break down and trade the core of who...
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Cat Webling
Aug 18, 20204 min read
The Who, What, and Why of Fandoms.
How Fans Identify Themselves and Their Communities. In the early part of 2020, I posted a survey on all of my social media accounts...
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Cat Webling
Aug 11, 20201 min read
A Cup of Tea
That your sounds should be so sharp And yet so tenderly accepted More a falcon's cry than harp With taught pulled strings directed By the...
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Cat Webling
Jul 22, 20204 min read
A Review of V. E. Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic
“You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.” ― V.E. Schwab, A Darker...
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Cat Webling
Jul 16, 20202 min read
The Unexpected Benefits of Keeping a Reading Log
Recently, I started keeping a reading log. It's not something I ever worried about doing before, mostly because I thought it would be...
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Cat Webling
Jul 4, 20202 min read
Independence Day.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...
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Cat Webling
Jun 21, 20203 min read
Father's Day.
My self-esteem reached its all-time low in middle school. I was a fat, tall, acne-prone girl with big, thick glasses and too-long hair,...
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Cat Webling
Jun 14, 20204 min read
A Review of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.
The only thing everyone knew for certain was that on May 2, 1982, in the early hours of the morning, Jim Williams shot Danny Hansford,...
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Cat Webling
Jun 7, 20203 min read
Black Lives Matter: Resources to Learn More and to Help.
There have been protests in the streets across the country and in countries around the world for over a week, and I have been vocal on...
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