Tag Archives: process

Making soup

January 9, 2010 – 12:15 pm

It’s been a little over a year since my mother died, and one of the things I inherited from her was her collection of cookbooks.
It’s quite a collection, too. When Mom ran out of space on the kitchen cookbook shelf, she just started putting them elsewhere. I’ve taken three large boxes and two paper bags full of cookbooks [...]

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So you want to write a book…

January 3, 2010 – 3:45 pm

It being the new year - and the first year of a new decade - I went poking around the web and noticed a bunch of websites for people’s New Year’s Resolutions. A little further investigation revealed that “write a book” is, in some form or another, on an awful lot of people’s lists (it [...]

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The jigsaw puzzle analogy

December 11, 2009 – 12:17 pm

I keep running across people who think that there is One Right Way to write a story, and who tie themselves in knots trying to force themselves to write “the right way” when it doesn’t suit their particurlar mental processes. Somewhere, somehow, they’ve gotten convinced (usually because some authority figure like an editor or highly respected [...]

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