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The Most Important Ingredient…

April 30th, 2009

Many readers know I love to cook and bake, and food analogies are common around here.

Food is a language we all speak, and so I find it most easy to explain things in terms of food.

In all the years I’ve been cooking/baking, the most important ingredient isn’t anything you can buy off the shelves, grow, or make… The most important ingredient is TIME. Time to let the flavors marry, time to let dough rise and bake…

I spent a lot of time of today combing over the final draft of my play “Disillusioned.” I’m submitting it to a festival, and before I submit anything anywhere, I make sure I read through it… just to make sure it’s the best I can get it.

It’s been a few months since the reading… From what I heard (from the reading of the script, and the comments the actors gave me afterward), I wasn’t far off — I just needed to expand on a few small things.

I was so inspired after the reading, and came up with four pages of new material. (Those who’ve read my plays know that I don’t waste a word. Four pages for me is fourteen for someone else.)

But I was stumped with the ending… And so I left it to sit a little bit… and it sat, and it sat a bit more…

I was doing other things, but it was in the back of my mind. Every now and then, I’d open the oven door just to check on it…

Today, the oven bell rang. Because I gave myself the time to sit with it, I realized that I’d already added just enough of what I needed. It was ready… and I’m finally ready to serve it.

Care for a piece?

–Sue

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