When preparing to bake a cake, to do a really good job, first you must go to the freshmarket and buy the best ingredients. Stale flower, spoiled milk, rotten eggs, and old sugar just won’t measure up. Even Chef Rino Baglio can’t transform rubbish into rum cake.
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1 | Research Papers
It’s again me 
Thanks for your letter
Mr.Research – it’s my mistake) I’ve already changed that on Digg, but username remains the same. Sure, I’m miss Research
Again, hugs and kisses, – from Miss Research.
Cheryl
2 | Amy
Had to love how you baked a cake of writing!!! I’ll certainly add your blog to my feed so that I can keep up with it!
5 | Tiffany
Do you really gather your ingredients in advance? That intrigues me, although it doesn’t surprise me–one of the most common themes on my writing blog is that we all have different things that work for us and shouldn’t ever buy into the “one right way” philosophy.
Personally, though, I don’t consciously work those things in. Sometimes they pop their heads up in relevant places and I weave them in, but I don’t start out with specifics that I want to “add to the mix”.
6 | Mark Stoneman
Sure, I go out and gather ingredients. After all, I’m an historian. But how do I know which ingredients are relevant and how do I know what story to make out of them? For me writing is a form of thinking. With each attempt at putting words on the page I get a little closer to understanding what it is I’m actually doing. With every printout and editing session with a real pen I get a little closer too. I need to get the stuff down to understand what I’m working with.
Hmmm. Maybe it’s a little like the way I make soup, except I can’t revise soup, only eat whatever the ingredients and cooking result in. (I make soup without a recipe. If it’s in the fridge and it’s a vegetable, there is a high probability that it’s going into the pot.)
7 | tuesdayb
February 26th, 2009 at 10:24 am
no wonder nothing’s popping in my head. I barely have any ingredient, let alone good ones! Your advice couldn’t have come at a better time. The muse will be coming along any minute now
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