Not quite -30- after all
Sep. 24th, 2012 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceThe late Dorothy Dunnett used to say that she'd get to the end of a Lymond and feel that she was honestly not quite done yet: so she'd write a Johnson Johnson mystery in the next six or seven weeks, just to wrap up.
I first heard this Before Internets, and the notion of someone writing a whole book so quickly, just to give herself a break from the other books she wrote... I was hornswoggled, I was. Now of course my inbox is full of people who write that quickly and relentlessly, and I'm almost blase about other people's process, and like that.
This morning, after yesterday? I thought I'd be quite done with cooking for a bit. I thought I'd let m'lady wife take me out to dinner.
This afternoon, as we know, I started rendering beef suet. Not with any aim in mind, just because.
This evening? I am cooking the Côôôôq au Vin that I neglected to cook yesterday, and the second Spotted Dog, and potatoes in the oven, and... Yeah. Because it's m'wife and me and we have a thing to celebrate, and just because it's m'wife and me. Oh, and anyone else who turns up, but that's not obligatory tonight. This is a quick contemporary meal to follow the great historical feast, and if I choose to follow a historical recipe, so what?
I first heard this Before Internets, and the notion of someone writing a whole book so quickly, just to give herself a break from the other books she wrote... I was hornswoggled, I was. Now of course my inbox is full of people who write that quickly and relentlessly, and I'm almost blase about other people's process, and like that.
This morning, after yesterday? I thought I'd be quite done with cooking for a bit. I thought I'd let m'lady wife take me out to dinner.
This afternoon, as we know, I started rendering beef suet. Not with any aim in mind, just because.
This evening? I am cooking the Côôôôq au Vin that I neglected to cook yesterday, and the second Spotted Dog, and potatoes in the oven, and... Yeah. Because it's m'wife and me and we have a thing to celebrate, and just because it's m'wife and me. Oh, and anyone else who turns up, but that's not obligatory tonight. This is a quick contemporary meal to follow the great historical feast, and if I choose to follow a historical recipe, so what?