Comments on: Making soup http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/ Sun, 5 Feb 2012 05:49:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: pcwrede http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1690 pcwrede Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:16:49 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1690 Mary - Most of the professional writers I know deviate from "recipes" for fiction, if they bother to use them at all. It's people who haven't figured that out yet - the ones who want to write and who try to follow the recipe exactly, without allowing the story to grow, who often run into problems. Mary - Most of the professional writers I know deviate from “recipes” for fiction, if they bother to use them at all. It’s people who haven’t figured that out yet - the ones who want to write and who try to follow the recipe exactly, without allowing the story to grow, who often run into problems.

]]> By: Mary http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1688 Mary Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:25:32 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1688 Your post is an incredible recipe for inspiration! I thing the deviations from the recipe are these comments, and I would like to add one of my own... I am very meticulous for my writing (I have even erased and recopied some parts because my handwriting is not neat enough! :) ), and I am also very perfection-istic about other things. The way I write really does sometimes reflect my personality! :) Your post is an incredible recipe for inspiration! I thing the deviations from the recipe are these comments, and I would like to add one of my own…
I am very meticulous for my writing (I have even erased and recopied some parts because my handwriting is not neat enough! :) ), and I am also very perfection-istic about other things. The way I write really does sometimes reflect my personality! :)

]]> By: pcwrede http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 pcwrede Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:52:33 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1664 Jennifer - Diana is a good friend, and I love the Tough Guide! green_knight - It's not so much about following the recipe, but about following it <em>and having it turn out well</em>. I can follow recipes, and my baking is pretty decent if I do say so myself; it's those flashes of brilliance that I miss when cooking. Gray and accio_aqualung - It's funny how one's habits in one area cross over into others, isn't it? Faye - Love the fashion designer analogy, but it does seem to fit the revising process better. Or maybe fitting for alterations works better for that? Alex - Recognition comes with practice. What gets really frustrating is when you KNOW there is a problem somewhere, but neither you nor anyone else can put a finger on what it is. It's crazy-making! Jennifer - Diana is a good friend, and I love the Tough Guide!

green_knight - It’s not so much about following the recipe, but about following it and having it turn out well. I can follow recipes, and my baking is pretty decent if I do say so myself; it’s those flashes of brilliance that I miss when cooking.

Gray and accio_aqualung - It’s funny how one’s habits in one area cross over into others, isn’t it?

Faye - Love the fashion designer analogy, but it does seem to fit the revising process better. Or maybe fitting for alterations works better for that?

Alex - Recognition comes with practice. What gets really frustrating is when you KNOW there is a problem somewhere, but neither you nor anyone else can put a finger on what it is. It’s crazy-making!

]]> By: Alex Fayle http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1663 Alex Fayle Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:54:12 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1663 Mmmm soup.... I make soup the same way as your mother did. Actually I make everything that way. Since I was about 12 I've never followed a recipe very well. Part of it is a lack of attention to the details, but a lot of it is just not agreeing with the author, or not having the same ingredients. I've created real disasters but I do that rarely now and when I do I know exactly what I did that created the disaster. Hopefully that recognition in my fiction disasters will come soon! ;) Mmmm soup…. I make soup the same way as your mother did. Actually I make everything that way. Since I was about 12 I’ve never followed a recipe very well. Part of it is a lack of attention to the details, but a lot of it is just not agreeing with the author, or not having the same ingredients.

I’ve created real disasters but I do that rarely now and when I do I know exactly what I did that created the disaster.

Hopefully that recognition in my fiction disasters will come soon! ;)

]]> By: Faye http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 Faye Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:23:07 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1662 That's a lovely entry! My other favourite writing analogy is the fashion designer fitting a dress, though I think it better describes the revising process than writing itself. Snip some places, expand others, add a ruffle or a bow--but don't compromise your vision for the person who wears it, or else it won't be yours anymore. That’s a lovely entry! My other favourite writing analogy is the fashion designer fitting a dress, though I think it better describes the revising process than writing itself. Snip some places, expand others, add a ruffle or a bow–but don’t compromise your vision for the person who wears it, or else it won’t be yours anymore.

]]> By: accio_aqualung http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 accio_aqualung Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:13:57 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1661 I've discovered if it takes more time to put together than a PB&J sammitch, I'm generally not interested. However, the payoff of a cooking splurge is so yummy, but I generally view recipes with disdain. (What do you mean I have to follow directions?!) ...perhaps this isn't relegated solely to cooking ... I’ve discovered if it takes more time to put together than a PB&J sammitch, I’m generally not interested. However, the payoff of a cooking splurge is so yummy, but I generally view recipes with disdain. (What do you mean I have to follow directions?!)

…perhaps this isn’t relegated solely to cooking …

]]> By: Gray Woodland http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1660 Gray Woodland Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:32:47 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1660 If I wrote how I cooked, I'd occasionally spend huge blocks of time trying to get one thing really right, interspersed with many shorter and less savoury episodes of slapping together the fastest comfort crap that comes to hand and washing it down liberally with my Beverage of Choice. Which does not in any way resemble any working habits with which I am familiar. Nay, sirrah Robert! If I wrote how I cooked, I’d occasionally spend huge blocks of time trying to get one thing really right, interspersed with many shorter and less savoury episodes of slapping together the fastest comfort crap that comes to hand and washing it down liberally with my Beverage of Choice.

Which does not in any way resemble any working habits with which I am familiar. Nay, sirrah Robert!

]]> By: green_knight http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1654 green_knight Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:42:13 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1654 It appears I write like I cook. Tonight I made a dish I learnt backpacking in Australia: walk into a supermarket, buy whatever vegetables you fancy, stirfry, season to taste. Anyone can follow that receipe ;-) It appears I write like I cook.

Tonight I made a dish I learnt backpacking in Australia: walk into a supermarket, buy whatever vegetables you fancy, stirfry, season to taste.

Anyone can follow that receipe ;-)

]]> By: Jennifer http://pcwrede.com/blog/making-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-1653 Jennifer Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:38:24 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=384#comment-1653 That "recipe for writing" sooo reminds me of Diana Wynne Jones' Tough Guide to Fantasyland. It alphabetically organizes all the stereotyped characters, plots, situations, and even the food of a fantasy novel. *giggle*. I think this is the best explanation I've heard of why the Enchanted Forest chronicles are so much fun! That “recipe for writing” sooo reminds me of Diana Wynne Jones’ Tough Guide to Fantasyland. It alphabetically organizes all the stereotyped characters, plots, situations, and even the food of a fantasy novel. *giggle*. I think this is the best explanation I’ve heard of why the Enchanted Forest chronicles are so much fun!

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