Work Wednesday – Page 12 – Annie DeMoranville

Work Wednesday: Multi-Tasking

I often wonder if I could write full-time, what that would mean for the books.

Some days in the summer, sitting at the desk and writing is difficult. There are dogs to walk and gardens to tend. But, when the ideas are flowing and the words come easily, I actually look forward to that quiet time with my characters and their adventures.

Work Wednesday: Summer Harvest

I was complaining this morning, to myself, that the garden seemed slow this year. I’d harvested a few jalapenos, but everything else was taking its sweet time. This morning, when I walked through the garden, I was surprised by a few tomatoes – dark cherries a friend gave me and some Early Girls.

They need to sit on the counter for a few days to fully ripen. I follow a tomato guru and in his videos, he says the flavor will be the same if they finish ripening on the counter or on the vine, but you’ll have fewer problems – bugs, weather – if you bring them in as soon as they are ripening.