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Crusty
The transition from ❄️ Winter ❄️ to 💐 Spring 🌷 can leave things a little crusty, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing…
🏂🏻 Crusty Landscape ⛄
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan. ~Christina Rossetti
I mentioned on Wednesday about a yard glacier incident from a couple years ago.
Fortunately, we’re not seeing that this time around.
Today was toasty warm, sunny and pretty much everything I hate about emerging from my 🍂 favorite seasons ❄️.
I had reason to go out, and it was very 💐 Springlike 🌷, which I found offputting.
Sure, it was pleasant, but the groundhog promised me a bunch more ❄️ Winter ❄️.
That’s what I get for trusting a rodent to forecast weather…
🍞 Crusty Bread 🥖
Tartine Bakery’s Country Loaf Is What Bread Dreams Are Made Of
Wow, trying to chomp that thing down in two days? I can scarcely imagine.
It’s a good tip she gave about slicing into the freezer to keep it.
I wouldn’t have thought you could just put a frozen slice of bread in the toaster and be good to go.
Interesting, but I guess it depends on this being the super-crusty artisanal bread instead of your typical store-bought square loaf.
I don’t recall ever having had the kind of bread that looks like you could play football with.
I’ll have to see if they’ve got some at Wegman’s and give it a try.
✍🏻 Crusty Author 😒
Every loaf of bread is a tragic story of grains that could have become beer, but didn’t. ~Bill Vaughan
Yes, I’m behind schedule today.
Ran late with some work stuff yesterday instead of prewriting this as I usually do.
That’s okay.
It’s still Saturday and I still have some ❄️ late–Winter ❄️ crustiness of my own.
Mr. Vaughn was a comical fellow, but he brings up an interesting idea.
People talk about what a story is about, but they rarely talk about what it is not about.
For every decision you make in your story, it represents a decision not to be something else.
Authors start off with a situational notion of some kind, a tonal What If? to serve as the narrative springboard.
By doing so, you’re rejecting a ton of perfectly valid options.
Why does that matter?
Because it means you can go back and write those other stories when you think you are running blank on ideas.
One of the biggest complaints on AuthorTube is the notion of running out of ideas, but that’s kind of silly.
If you successfully completed writing a story where some character made some choice leading to some consequences culminating in some result, you can simply take that and apply the What If? engine.
Now you have a similar character faced with similar stakes, making a different choice and the story forks off in another equally interesting direction.
You could write a year’s worth of stories just juggling this basic premise.
If you feel as if you’re stuck and have no ideas, give this a try.
If you have written one story, you can write a similar story and change the decisions to make an original story with its own twists and turns.
That’s rather appropriate for the transition from February to March, since you never know where a refrozen crust of icy snow may be hiding.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for mud…