Cook a Book
Been a while (sorry), but I've had stubborm characters to deal with. Today's recipe is how to cook a book - That's right: COOK A BOOK! For those of you that love the kitchen as much as I do, this will be easy to undersatnd. And for the rest,well perhaps I can invite a smile. Much the same as there are generally two types of writer, so too are there two types of cooks. Actually there is a whole lot more, but let's stick to two for the sake of simplicity. In various forums and with people I meet, I am always asked to categorise my writing style: outline or wing? That got me thinking, and after continuous spells of writing, I have a fair idea. I do both. Being fortunate that story ideas land on the doorstep of my mind like the morning paper, so too do recipes. But it is not as 'cast in stone' as that, at least not for me anyway. Let's go shopping! At the supermarket you can see outine or wing-it people from a mile away. The outline shopper is struct