One Small Step for a Turkey

Progress for the day: 300 words and a pot of turkey miso soup.

Our household has started working toward a new goal in earnest: cooking instead of eating out. This coincides nicely with the weekend that I decided to roast a whole turkey, providing easy-to-use leftovers and meal ideas. So this week: Thanksgiving-stype turkey dinner, turkey divan, and turkey soup. And I still have leftover turkey to freeze, along with four cups of turkey stock for future use.

This requires more planning, however. Wednesday through Friday I have other activities in the evening, so I don’t have as much time to cook before we faint from hunger in the after-work hours. And more cooking means less writing time. Yet I still managed 300 words on a short fantasy story I thought up a week or two ago. And a blog post.

So now, the soup goes in the fridge and I call it a fairly productive day, especially for a Monday.

 

Coffee and Words

There’s just something about coffee and words that go well together.

Actually, I think coffee goes well with almost anything. But when it’s cold outside, there’s just something about the smell of coffee and a warm blanket and snuggling up with a favorite book or the ol’ laptop that just makes everything right in the world.

I actually feel that I focus better on my writing when I’m drinking green tea, rather than coffee. I’m not sure why. But green tea doesn’t have that comforting feel to it, that combination of earthy aroma and sharp bitter taste that invokes nostalgia and make my heart race in anticipation of good things to come.

Or maybe it’s anticipation of the caffeine buzz. Whatever.

I’ve been reading more than writing this weekend, thanks to some birthday gift certificates. Picked up the first book in a Tamora Pierce YA series I loved when I was younger, partly for the nostalgia and partly as research on YA style. (Ha!) Also books by Steven Brust, CJ Cherryh, and Getting Things Done by David Allen.

Tomorrow it’s back to producing my own words. At a coffeeshop. Just because they go so well together.