Apropos of nothing: how to make béchamel, one of the classic French mother sauces.
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Posts Tagged ‘#365Ways2023’
Mother of Sauces
Posted in Food and..., tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, cooking, lessons on January 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
A Typical Day
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
On a typical day, I usually have X number of words in me. On days when I use those words for, say, an epic treatise to friends on the efficacy of my experimental new toothpaste, I turn to the words of others. Time to make a start on 2023’s to-be-read list.
“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar
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Handy Writing Tool
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, reference tools, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Today, an old tool with a twist I find useful: the visual thesaurus. My Writers of the Future editor asked for some last updates, and I got stuck on one that should have been simple but was not.
The problem was that beta readers didn’t quite understand the meaning of the phrase I used, and I had to replace it with a completely different word that still captured a complicated feeling. I don’t usually use a thesaurus, but sometimes needs must. My computer’s built-in options don’t handle phrases well, so online I went.
A quick search led me to stumble on one with a visual, as well as a list, interface. (Has this been around forever? Probably, but it was new to me. Perhaps to you too?) Here’s an example:
Care synonyms, care antonyms – FreeThesaurus.com
Each word’s multiple meanings are clustered with related words, antonyms and links. I can always read the options as a list, of course, but I found this presentation surprisingly helpful when it came to brainstorming options.
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On the Road
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, Thoughts, writing on January 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »
On the road again today. Strangely, I find I come up with some of my best ideas while distracted by traveling.
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In All Its Glory
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Fiction, genre fiction, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?… If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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To A New Year
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts on January 1, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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