Work Wednesday:Process

 

I don’t have a set way to approach my books. Some chapters run like movies in my head, and I write them down. Others, I have to outline before I can even begin.

I often worry about my process. Because I know authors who map out their entire book with outlines, note cards pinned to bulletin boards, or notebooks filled with clippings and handwritten chapters. My experience is a bit more haphazard.

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.

A Little Cooking

As I struggle with book three, Full Sail, of the TJ Wilde Trilogy, I’ve been doing a little baking. From my cooking blog:

I have been wanting to make Rye Bread for a while, but I didn’t have all the ingredients handy. Tracking down rye flour was tricky. Once I had everything in the pantry, it was time to bake.

Then I realized, I had no recipe handy. It had been so long since I’d made a loaf, I had no favorite one bookmarked anywhere…or documented here. So I was off on a search…only to be frustrated by variations and lack of reassurance if a certain recipe was what I was looking for..or if it was even a good recipe. Even King Arthur let me down. Continue reading here