It’s All About the Writing
How About A Recipe For Apple Carrot Salad?
This last week I invented a lasagna recipe, because I didn’t like the ones in my various cookbooks. It turns out that, for me, writing and cooking are quite similar. I write. I review. (In the case of recipes, that means eating what I made.) I edit. And then I tighten and refine.
I also visited the Albuquerque Museum and learned (among other things) about how New Mexico played a role in the American Revolutionary War. If you think the reason for the participation was an awakening idealism toward democratic ideals, well… Let’s just say it’s a lot more complicated than that. We also enjoyed the refurbished display about Albuquerque from its founding (well before the United States was a nation) to the present.
I also spent a tremendous amount of time working on Wolf’s Search and Wolf’s Soul. When I had a moment, I checked on the Kickstarter for DreamForge magazine. It’s moving along very well. There are just a few days to take advantage of the cool incentives, and I hope you will.
I also did a bunch of the sort of business-related jobs that people, who imagine writers as simply sitting dreamy-eyed with pen in hand (or fingers on keys), are continually astonished to discover are part of being a published writer.
Wolf’s Search is more or less done but, as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m not moving it into production until Wolf’s Soul is complete, because that’s the best way for me to produce high-quality novels. I’m still reviewing what I’ve written on Wolf’s Soul. Since much of this was written while Jim was recovering from knee replacement surgery, there are places where I need to stop and double-check details or insert descriptions, so this is slower going. However, I am moving along.
Now, I think I’ll go back and immerse myself once more in writing. Which, it now occurs to me I do for much the same reason I invent recipes: because only I can tell the stories I want to tell.
