I am blessed to live with three cats these days. Donut is the oldest, Bean in the middle, and Koko is the youngest. All of them are Tortoise-shell cats (dark brown, orange, and light brown in swirls and stripes), which makes them a little hard to tell apart in the dark, but they all have their own distinct personalities.
One of them, Bean, really likes disturbing me while I work. Normally she sits on my keyboard or between my arms in such a way as to make it very difficult to write (sometimes even nibbling on my hands to let me know I should be petting her and not writing). It’s adorable, but distracting. But I can’t say I really mind… she’s very warm and compassionate most of the time and likes spending time wherever I am.
At this moment, she is sitting next to me on a pile of blankets on a chair next to me, placed there specifically to draw her away from my keyboard and let me write. She’s snoring, in a way that is both adorable and very hard to describe. A wheezing, purring sort of sound. Like distant thunder mixed with squeaky wheels.
Like I said, difficult to describe.
But it’s funny. If I were to write this into a story, I would probably just write “gently snoring cat” and leave the reader to fill in the specifics of the sound itself. No need to Stephen King the situation and spend a full page on a small detail that everyone either knows what it sounds like (even if it sound different from my Bean) or don’t care what it sounds like unless it’s critical to the story.
Maybe one day I will write a story that hinges on the specific frequency of cat snores… until then…
Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!
