Winnie the Pooh Wisdom: all the writer needs - Hilary Hawkes

What I’ve come to realise is that all anyone really needs to be a writer is Winnie the Pooh Wisdom.

For every eventuality: exciting moments, rejection moments, cloud nine moments and general slogging along day to day moments you might encounter on the writing journey, the little bear (or his friends) would know how to handle it all.

New book idea moments:

 "As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen."

Looming deadline moments:

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

Challenging review or feedback moments:

"Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them."

Working up courage to send manuscripts out moments:

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

Thinking up new character moments:

 "Piglet: “How do you spell 'love'?" Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it.""

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Book talks or signing moments:

 "You are braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think."

Agent/publisher dumping moments:

“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”

Spending time with writer friend moments:

“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”

Looking back moments:

 “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

See what I mean?

Now I just need one for stop-the-procrastinating-moments. Any ideas?

A A Milne is most famous,of course, for his books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin.  The various characters were inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably his teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. 

The quotes were all inspired by A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books' characters, and what happens to them, and appear in 'Pooh's Little Instruction Book' illustrated by E.H. Shepard - who illustrated the Pooh books.

Hilary Hawkes

Writer and children's author