Baking and Writing
31 Jan 2012 3 Comments
in Writing Tags: baking, characters, writing
Sometimes the creative part of your mind works in funny ways.
I asked a couple of my coworkers if I should bake blondies or brownies for a potluck on Thursday. They said “Both” and then continued to joke around, tossing in things like “in the same pan” and “swirled together.” They were teasing, but my brain seized on it and decided that I needed to experiment with baked goods.
The “Make Them Both” bars are cooling as we speak.
Sometimes you have to be flexible and let your creativity run where it will. You might want your story to end a certain way, but as you write it moves in a completely different direction! Perhaps you start out with one character as your protagonist, and it turns out that a side character is really the better focus. (These have both happened to me!) Just go with the flow and see where your creative mind takes you.
Well, maybe you’d like to wait until I’ll let you know how the experimental dessert turns out…
