Well it's the second day of my write every day challenge. I haven't gotten started on my current project yet, but I'll do that after the gym. I've just started a sourdough bread, and once I know how it's turned out I'll post the recipe for you. Here's a note on writer's block. I have a few different ways to overcome it that some of you might find useful. One is stopping everything and going for a jog. Listen to some music, preferably instrumental, and just let your imagination take you where ever it wants to. This could work for a walk too, as long as you get your breathing deep and even and the blood flowing. a good long walk can produce a lot of good ideas. So that's what I'll be doing before I get started. I think the point is to make sure you're breathing. Studies back me up when I say that breathing deeply and evenly, you get more oxygen to the brain, and generally tend to think better. I think the study tested students taking tests and they got better grades when they made sure that they were breathing properly (caffeine doesn't hurt either). Right now I'm on character sketches. I've got the whole plot line written up, and it's just getting more complex as I add more interesting characters. I like to first figure out what's going to drive my plot, and if it's characters- which it usually is-then things tend to flesh themselves out nicely when I write out what role I want my character to play in the story. Right now I have two stories going (well four, but two actively), but I'm going to try focussing on one. Normally I have a few different projects out in front of me and I flip through them as I become inspired. Right now, I'm putting all the rest on the backburner as I turn my focus on this new one. I'm going to for once challenge myself to follow through with one project. While I jot ideas for the others it will perhaps inspire me to finish my current project more quickly so I can get on to the next. :)
I'll be posting again this evening with maybe more writer's block avoidance techniques and pics and a recipe for you. Also, feel free to comment with your special writer's block avoidance techniques.
Much Love to You,
Amber
So that sourdough turned out great! But I'm still trying to figure out how to post pictures. I'll go back and do that for the cheesecake too when I figure it out. I just enjoyed a piece with earth balance and honey fresh out of the bread machine! As for my writing I'm going to be separating the plot into chapters and tackle them one at a time. I think I'll be writing it backwards. I'm so non-sequential when it comes to my writing. I feel like beginning the story is much easier when you have the final chapter written out. You sort of have to reverse engineer the story. Especially now that I'm tackling my first sort of mystery story. Not that it's pure mystery, mind you. I'm mostly a satirical sarcastic sort of writer, and that really shows in the works that I create. So I'm divvying up the story into manageable chunks and starting from the very end. :) I think I'll be writing the last chapter tonight.
So as promised I have a recipe for you!
To make the starter:
I did a Tablespoon of yeast
1 1/2 cups of warm water
I mixed that and let it stand for ten minutes
I put together
1 cups of potato starch and
1 cups of brown rice flour
Then I sort of loosely covered it in plastic wrap and set it in my warm humid utility room. Make/store in a glass container, and stir with a wooden spoon (once a day for a week before preparing).
I used my oster expressbake, placing liquid ingredients in first and dry in second after
1 cup starter
1 Tablespoon Apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup water (lukewarm)
2 cups brown rice flour
1 cup potato starch
1 Tablespoon guar gum
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
and 1 Tablespoon yeast
I set the setting to sweet bread and the crust darkness to medium.
Enjoy fresh and warm out of the bread machine, preferably with a little soy free earth balance and some raw organic honey :)
you will love it with paninis too if you have one of those little george forman dudes. like a chipotle panini with grilled veggies and chicken and a homemade chipotle mayo
recipe for the mayo
get some canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce... use one of those peppers and a particlove of garlic (mince it), and blend with 3 cups of mayo.
oooh and you'd better make some guacamole, I might post that recipe tonight, haha, if you can't tell I make most everything I eat...it's a process, but one that I enjoy :)
Again, with Crazy Love,
Amber Boice
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