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Souped Up And Ready To Roll
A ❄️ Wintry ❄️ Saturday is a perfect opportunity to enjoy a sumptuous bowl of soup while resting comfortably at home.
🍲 Hale & Hearty 🥣
My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead. ~Ina Garten
Yeah, same. We’ve got some errands to run later and we will be stopping through the grocery store.
Count on me grabbing a couple cans of soup because “soup is good food“. Seriously.
Beef barley, cheddar broccoli, chicken & stars, vegetable beef, and on and on and on. I can easily go soup-crazy because it’s so good.
And a bitterly cold day like today is the perfect time to drink in that nutritional goodness.
It’s quick and easy from the can or you can get fancy and make it the old fashioned way to cook it from fresh ingredients.
You already know which way I’m headed🥫🥫🥫
🥣 Eat Your Soup 🥫
7 Reasons You Should Eat Soup Every Day // Nutritarian // Eat to Live
She’s got some great points, but don’t threaten me with a good time. Right?
I don’t need to be convinced to eat soup.
I don’t need to be convinced to eat, period.
I do need to be convinced when to stop, because some of this stuff is too darned good.
Nice thing about soup, though, is that being watery it kind of zooms right through you.
It’s not that minute on the lips, forever on the hips deal that you get with donuts and other sweet treats.
Soup tastes great going in, but it won’t linger like a steak and a baked potato would.
Dang, now I’ve got to pick up some steak too. 🛒🥩🥔🥕
📙 For The Soul 🥣
‘The Chicken Soup for the Soul‘ books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make. ~Jack Canfield
It’s said that you should “write what you know“.
Well, yeah.
I include a lot of things that have happened to me in my fiction. Most times, it’s transformed for purposes of the story.
For instance, when Matt gets blown up in Fist of Vengeance, that’s a variation of my own experience with the van.
I don’t know what it’s like to have a bomb go off or to have my arm broken by a falling bookshelf, but I have been in a few situations in which I have been enough pain to reasonably put myself in Matt’s shoes for story purposes.
Typically, we don’t even think to write something we haven’t experienced because we basically don’t know it’s a thing.
There are oodles of people who have never eaten something with Sriracha in it, so they have no idea of how it insta-drains your sinuses like you stuck Drano in your nose.
Without having that experience, it won’t even have a chance of making it into your prose.
On the other hand, there are plenty of things I’ve never done that I might like to have my characters do.
Never been skiing. Probably never will be. If I wanted a skiing sequence in my story, I’m going to have to do some serious research.
The best research would be to actually go skiing, but there are other ways to go about it.
You can interview experts. You can watch videos of people doing it. You can even watch videos of people’s GoPros as if you were the one skiing to emulate that experience.
But you didn’t have that experience. You have researched it. The more thorough your research, the better it will come across in the book.
I can tell you how my skydiving experience went, but you really can’t understand what it feels like to step off of an airplane 4500 feet in the air without doing so.
So, as much as it’s an 🌰 old chestnut 🌰, “write what you know” also quite true.
Go have experiences in life. Get out. Do things. Meet different people. It will make your writing stronger.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for ❄️ fluffy ❄️ white ❄️ rain…