Never kick a sleeping skunk.
— Kelly Long’s Mom
Mom’s have a lot of great advice. I’m sure we’ve all heard:
- Money does not grow on trees.
- Don’t make that face or it’ll freeze in that position.
- Always change your underwear; you never know when you’ll have an accident.
- Be careful or you’ll put your eye out.
- If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
- Be careful what you wish for, it might come true.
We could go on–obviously.
But, I was intrigued by this bit of advice when Kelly shared it with me a couple weeks ago. Is there a writing application? What do you think?
Enter your writing related advice about kicking sleeping skunks below.
Michael Ehret, for Writing on the Fine Line
Writing On The Fine Line 
Be careful what you write … it could come back and leave a stink. Yesterday, I started to respond to a sleeing-skunk photo story on Facebook, but thankfully before I hit enter, I rethought my remarks and erased them. š The story dealt with a dog with 2 prostheses, due to torture by a gang. I started to write what I thought they should do to the gang members’ anatomy regarding future generations, but decided it was too graphic. I let that sunk lie undisturbed.
hahahahahhahaha! I like your application. “Be careful what you write … it could come back and leave a stink.”
Truth.