speaking on writing

I gave a speech yesterday on how to be a successful writer. I said it required money, and I gave all sorts of reasons. My props included:

a cigar box
a bag of Tantrix tiles
(look it up)
a can of racquetballs
a blank journal
a deck of cards
an atlas from 1985 (one Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, two Germanys)
a dagger
a crystal skull
a traveling ink well
a gold-colored backpack
a stuffed kitten
(vastly different from a taxidermist's kitten)

See if you can figure out what I said. {wicked grin}