Cookies + writing + reading
May. 17th, 2020 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaVarious people shared chocolate chip cookie recipes with me, and I finally ended up making these, though with slightly less chocolate. What I wanted was a cookie that was crispy on the edges and chewy in the middle, and with a strong butterscotch flavor. I am completely and utterly satisfied. *happy sigh*
My second long Flight of the Heron story is over 28,000 words now, and is going very well! Writing is often the most satisfying thing that happens in my day, these days. I predict that it will keep going well until approximately 35,000 words, when I will hit an upcoming plot difficulty that I don't yet know how to solve--I know what I want to accomplish, but not how to accomplish it. Oh well, I'll just keep going until I hit it.
Also, since I last posted recs, five more Flight of the Heron stories have been posted, with one author posting for the first time. Go check them out!
We had book club meeting today, and discussed Thornfruit by Felicia Davin. It was a perfectly fine fantasy book? I enjoyed it well enough, but had no strong feelings about it.
My second long Flight of the Heron story is over 28,000 words now, and is going very well! Writing is often the most satisfying thing that happens in my day, these days. I predict that it will keep going well until approximately 35,000 words, when I will hit an upcoming plot difficulty that I don't yet know how to solve--I know what I want to accomplish, but not how to accomplish it. Oh well, I'll just keep going until I hit it.
Also, since I last posted recs, five more Flight of the Heron stories have been posted, with one author posting for the first time. Go check them out!
We had book club meeting today, and discussed Thornfruit by Felicia Davin. It was a perfectly fine fantasy book? I enjoyed it well enough, but had no strong feelings about it.
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Date: 2020-05-18 07:19 am (UTC)THOSE COOKIES!
Date: 2020-05-17 10:58 pm (UTC)If you start out with 280g of butter, and then more than twice that amount of chocolate, how can you go wrong?!
Hooray for writing in a fandom you love.
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Date: 2020-05-18 05:08 pm (UTC)Yes, hooray for writing, I love it so much! ♥
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Date: 2020-05-18 05:05 am (UTC)I'm glad the FotH writing continues well, and good luck for finding a way around the plot difficulties!
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Date: 2020-05-18 05:09 pm (UTC)I'm just going to keep writing for now--if my subconscious doesn't solve it in the meantime, I guess I'll have to sit down and put some conscious work into it...
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Date: 2020-05-18 04:47 pm (UTC)I got Thornfruit via some sale (maybe even got it for free?) because I'd heard it was good fantasy. Question (please don't spoil me!): since I know it's the first in a series, does it end in a hard or soft cliffhanger?
Asking because I'm considering getting the rest of the books.
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Date: 2020-05-18 05:15 pm (UTC)I would say it's a soft cliffhanger.