Someone’s in the Kitchen with Susan…
Recently, I baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies.
I couldn’t wait to bite right into them, right out of the oven. But they just didn’t taste right. I tried them later and they tasted great.
What happened? Easy… they needed time to cool, to set, and to complete their chemical reaction.
There’s a common misconception that writing happens when a writer sets pen to paper, but it usually involves a lot of thinking and planning, and more thinking until I even write a single word…
“Ideas need time to bake,” (an old friends used to say). They also need time to cool.
It was close to a week ago now that I came up with the “endings” for each of the characters remaining in the musical, but I wasn’t satisfied… Then last night I had an amazing epiphany and saw a possible scene, but I still wasn’t 100% sure.
Today I thought about it again and it fits perfectly.
I needed to not only let the idea bake, but also cool, to fully embrace it…
–Sue
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