What’s the best thing to do while writing a book—yes, while writing?
Bake bread. It takes hours, about the time a good writing session takes place. You set the bread up, and the bread kneading limbers up your fingers for keyboard, pen, or pencil. Then you set the bread to rise, even as you set yourself down before your writing desk. As the bread works itself, slowly expanding, your work is expanding, too. Time to rise from writing, and you are preparing for the second bread rising. Then the actual baking. Even as your writing time ends, your whole apartment/house smells wonderful. You quit for the day, take the bread from the oven, and reward yourself for all your hard work with a slice—today it’s Vermont Whole Wheat Oatmeal Honey Bread—recipe courtesy of King Arthur Flour.
I’ve been doing this writing/baking for years. My writing may not rise to the occasion, but my bread always does.
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I’ve cooked while I’ve written, but I’ve never baked bread while writing. It sounds like something I have to try. Thanks for the suggestion (and the link to the recipe).