The wisdom of the ages
Mar. 3rd, 2011 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceNo one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. - Laurie Colwin.
That's an absolute, of course - but I read it this morning and thought, y'know? That's exactly how I feel about writing SF, too. It's that conversation that people talk about, the sense that any new book is in a relationship with everything that's come before - and like any intimate relationship, sometimes it's competitive and always it's challenging but sometimes it's cushioning too, it's supportive. Having that weight of achievement behind us is not threatening, it's something to rely on. The genre has our backs.
Why yes, I am in California. And fronting the possibility of getting to work seriously on my first SF novel. As soon as I stop noodling around and finish the ghost story, that is.
*noodles*
In other CA-related news, I was chiropractic'd yesterday by a woman with an activator. Today, I am inventing sourdough bread buns (for lack of a proving-basket). This will be my first proper San Francisco sourdough, and I have no idea how it's going to turn out, but it has risen spectactularly well overnight. I'll let you know.
That's an absolute, of course - but I read it this morning and thought, y'know? That's exactly how I feel about writing SF, too. It's that conversation that people talk about, the sense that any new book is in a relationship with everything that's come before - and like any intimate relationship, sometimes it's competitive and always it's challenging but sometimes it's cushioning too, it's supportive. Having that weight of achievement behind us is not threatening, it's something to rely on. The genre has our backs.
Why yes, I am in California. And fronting the possibility of getting to work seriously on my first SF novel. As soon as I stop noodling around and finish the ghost story, that is.
*noodles*
In other CA-related news, I was chiropractic'd yesterday by a woman with an activator. Today, I am inventing sourdough bread buns (for lack of a proving-basket). This will be my first proper San Francisco sourdough, and I have no idea how it's going to turn out, but it has risen spectactularly well overnight. I'll let you know.