I’m using cute animal pictures on Twitter to hone my one-liner skills. The brevity of Twitter has been stumping my creative juices. I want to toss off pithy wisdom, wisecracks, and cutting social commentary to make the Twitter world go round, but my wit fails me every time.

Then I saw this gem from Frances Ng:

The Benefits of Cuteness to Emotional Health and Cognitive Performance

Cute animals to the rescue. Each day I’m posting at least one tweet with an animal photo, #animalbackstory, and an imagined scenario for the photo. I force myself to dash them off quickly with the theory that I’ll get better with time. Come join me https://twitter.com/MaryDeVries19.