I spent this evening making a dark chocolate mint slice for my fellow court minions. Happy Birthday, section overlord!
The interesting thing is that, while I didn't get any actual writing done, all the mixing and washing and stirring gave me plenty of time to think about the novel I'm in the process of editing. I think it was Agatha Christie who said that the best time to plan a book is when you're doing the dishes, but it's never really hit home for me how true that is until now.
Probably exercise has the same effect (I must try that one day!), but the soothing, monotonous motions were really good at letting my brain forget about my body and drift in its own direction - which luckily happened to be my book. I've come up with a whole new opening that is a lot more interesting, and at least two characters are going to drastically change.
Also, it's a pretty darn tasty slice.
Word count - 787
Oh, yum. Want cake.
ReplyDeleteAnd a decent word count sounds pretty good, too!