*sniffle* *hack* *type type type*

[pameladean]

Yep, this is a cold, all right. At least it seems to be putting itself through its paces fairly briskly.

I have written three hundred words today already and have high hopes of another chunk of about the same size. This book is certainly not moving very fast -- I don't mean the pace of my writing, I mean the speed with which the plot advances -- but I think this is just as well. Thematic, even.

Must watch a tendency to describe food whenever at a loss, however.

Pamela

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[telynor.livejournal.com]

Check out LiveJournal's FoodPorn community if you have a weakness for sexy food...

[pameladean]

Thanks -- I've been kind of staying from anything called Food Porn on the grounds that it almost must constitute yet another time sink. But I'll bear it in mind. Perhaps I could call it research.

Pamela

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

He aporia...the state of being at a loss. :) Aporeo is one of my favorite Greek verbs.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I for one would be happy to read you describing food. Probably hungry, if it went on for very long, but otherwise entirely happy.

Hope the cold passes soon.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Must watch a tendency to describe food whenever at a loss, however.

I almost never think to mention what my characters are eating. Probably because, although I like food and will happily eat any cuisine put in front of me (Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, Greek, Indian, Thai, Laotian, Nepalese, Afghan, Spanish, East African ... not so fond of German, actually, but then that's mostly about sausage, which makes me ill), I'm not interested in food. Which probably explains why my husband does all the cooking.

My favorite stalling technique is making up gothic bits of historical trivia.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I, OTOH, am so interested in food that I have personally cooked everything eaten in my first three novels, and my current novel has cooking scenes you could cook from -- well, if you substituted a bit of tech and an oven glove for the magic.

And Pamela, I could read you describing food all day -- I could taste that "poisoned" chocolate! (Why can't I remember any food in JGR, and is this significant of anything? Probably that I should read it again.)

[pameladean]

There's food -- several family dinners are described, and there's also the things Becky and Gentian eat during their sleepover. I think there's food at Alma's party, too. But Gentian's attitude towards food is a bit absent much of the time.

The present book has a bakery in a fairly prominent place in the plot. I'm having far too much fun with that.

My attitude as a writer is closer to yours than to Truepenny's. I am passionately interested in food, but I can't always get my characters to go along, and I don't have a tremendous knowledge of a lot of the things I make up. The characters have, but they won't always tell me.

Pamela

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Blushful Hippocrene being hard to find in Minneapolis at this time of year to be sure...

[pameladean]

*snort* *giggle* *cough*

Buttercup syrup. Apparently an indispensable part of safely reading LiveJournal.

Pamela