New Blog Series! Author Resources

I was baking bread when I got the idea for it. Yes, baking bread. Ever since I got married, I've been very excited about cooking most things from scratch. It's healthier, you know. ;) Anyway, I had learned to make noodles from scratch a week or two before, and was thinking about how much time all of it took. I realized that there was a very good reason for women in the past to spend most of their days at home. If they didn't, no one ate. It takes almost all day to cook three meals from scratch. And this is with modern appliances like an electric stove and a microwave, not to mention the ability to store leftovers in the refrigerator.

This was a detail I hadn't thought of before. Women from older times, no wonder they often didn't get much schooling. No wonder they had to stay home so much. If they didn't, their families suffered and possibly didn't get enough good food to eat. By the time they had an opportunity to study during the day, they were probably too tired to take it.

This thought gave me the idea for a new blog series that I hope will be both fun and informative.

Not on cooking, although that will feature, but on little details that we often don't think about in our writing. As always, it's going to be geared toward fiction writers in general and fantasy writers in particular, but my hope is that other writers will find it helpful as well. This series will be primarily a resource for writers, writers who need to know things like how to bake bread, practical self-defense maneuvers, and basic sewing. Not for themselves, but for their characters.

If there is a subject you'd like to learn about, comment below and I'll see what I can do!