It was an ignoble death
Sunday, October 14th, 2012 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoMade pumpkin bars with cream cheese icing this afternoon. They are finishing cooling in the fridge. Then we shall see how tasty they are. I wound up altering the cream cheese icing recipe quite a bit. It called for 3oz of cream cheese for two cups of powdered sugar, 1 tsp of vanilla, and 1/3 cup butter. WTF? I'm sorry but cream cheese icing should still taste like cream cheese, not regular vanilla icing. So I put the whole 8oz I had in there.
Best decision ever. This was just how cream cheese icing should taste: sweet, but with a nice creamy-sour bite from the cream cheese. I note the change in my cookbook so I can use it on carrot cake or spice cake next time we make those.
The story I was writing for Halloween has died. I swear, it was going great and then it just stopped. There's a plot hole I can't figure out how to fix. This happens quiet a lot in my writing, especially when I don't plan out the plot ahead of time. Which is what I did (or didn't, as the case may be) do this time. I just started writing to see where it went. Where it went was straight towards a plot hole. I left in alone for a week hoping that inspiration would strike again. No such luck. Starting Monday I'm going to continue to slog through it, just get words down and not worry about the problems. I can always go back and fix them on rewrite.
Which is my way of saying, I'm not sure the Halloween story will be done by Halloween. Oh well. It wasn't quite as Halloween-y as I was hoping for anyway. It can be just an October story.
I should totally due a story for each month at some point. I would be cool to incorporate stuff from each month into a story. Maybe give myself a word count limit, like 10,000 words, and just work on it for the first 10 or last 10 days of the month. I know from experience that I can easily do 1,000 words a night. Especially if I sit down before hand a list out 10-15 things associated with each month that I should include and do a rough outline of the plot.
That might be my New Year's resolution next year. A story a month.
Best decision ever. This was just how cream cheese icing should taste: sweet, but with a nice creamy-sour bite from the cream cheese. I note the change in my cookbook so I can use it on carrot cake or spice cake next time we make those.
The story I was writing for Halloween has died. I swear, it was going great and then it just stopped. There's a plot hole I can't figure out how to fix. This happens quiet a lot in my writing, especially when I don't plan out the plot ahead of time. Which is what I did (or didn't, as the case may be) do this time. I just started writing to see where it went. Where it went was straight towards a plot hole. I left in alone for a week hoping that inspiration would strike again. No such luck. Starting Monday I'm going to continue to slog through it, just get words down and not worry about the problems. I can always go back and fix them on rewrite.
Which is my way of saying, I'm not sure the Halloween story will be done by Halloween. Oh well. It wasn't quite as Halloween-y as I was hoping for anyway. It can be just an October story.
I should totally due a story for each month at some point. I would be cool to incorporate stuff from each month into a story. Maybe give myself a word count limit, like 10,000 words, and just work on it for the first 10 or last 10 days of the month. I know from experience that I can easily do 1,000 words a night. Especially if I sit down before hand a list out 10-15 things associated with each month that I should include and do a rough outline of the plot.
That might be my New Year's resolution next year. A story a month.
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Date: 10/15/12 01:16 am (UTC)Mmm, frosting...