Historical Fiction with Sprinkles
For a writer, I don’t actually write much about writing here, do I?
For me, writing a book is like making piecrust. (Mmmm, pie.) One must pay attention to what one is doing and pull it together with a light hand. Work it too much, and it gets tough and gray. Give it to someone else to play with, and it may turn out to be mince instead of apple. Take it out of the oven every few minutes to see what it looks like, and it will never be more than half-baked.
So although I am in the very early stages of working on a new project, I won’t be writing about it in much detail. It’s also set in the sixteenth century. It also features some historical personages and some fictional characters. It also combines elements of mystery, adventure, romance, character study, fabulous food and magnificent costumery, palace intrigue and sudden death.
Or as I like to call it—historical fiction with sprinkles.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I prefer cake to pie, but I think the pie crust analogy works better than any cake analogy I can think of. Especially the “tough and gray” part. When you’ve just messed with the darn thing too much. Ugh.
April 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I really have to think of my own writing analogy…I do love the ‘historical fiction with sprinkles’ too…
April 16th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Well, if one overbeats cake batter the cake gets tough and more like bread than cake… something about the glutens. And there are all kinds of ways to goof up frostings. So I’m sure there’s a cake analogy in there somewhere. Heh.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Mmmm, sprinkles! Of course, you have to come up with two different writing identities. Twice as hard!
April 17th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Hey, I need a writing identity!
I don’t talk about writing much on my blog either. Hardly at all. I’m impressed by people who can come up with interesting things to say about the process – my musings on these subjects are of the “my cat’s name is Mittens” variety.
April 18th, 2009 at 4:47 am
I’ve never baked anything, so I don’t quite get the analogy, but I love the pie pic.
April 19th, 2009 at 5:45 am
Hi, Nadia! Welcome to my blog! The pie does look yummy, doesn’t it?