With that I had to increase the baking soda and baking powder since I added so much more flour. The consistency was way to liquid so I had to add 5.5 extra tbsp of flour to get a cake batter/ buttermilk pancake batter texture. The flax can be gummy abs crumby!Įveything that could go wrong with these cups went wrong. I have successfully substituted flax eggs and out milk into other recipes I decided to try this because they were super cute and I thought they might stick together better for a cupcake. She is an Associate Editor at The Potomac Review. Davis’s new novel, A Slender Thread, is coming out later this year. Recommended in Real Simple Spring Travel 2007, Capturing Paris was also included in the New York Times suggestions for fiction set in Paris. Katharine Davis’s novels include East Hope and Capturing Paris. The joy of connecting with readers and contributing one more piece to the human experience lifts your spirits and brings you the courage to reach for your pen to start writing again. ![]() Months later, when your carefully worked-on manuscript pages have become an actual book, you have the satisfaction of knowing that your story, like your grown child, is out in the world at last. Still, you’ve created something with love and hard work. You want your child to have his own life, to succeed. You experience the relief of getting them out from under your roof, to deep sadness. They’ve spent the last few years of high school driving you crazy, but also bringing you joy and delight. Letting go of a novel is like sending children off to college. When did I write that? The next few weeks bring a combination of highs and lows. , and the ending that can still make me cry. At that moment, the initial thrill of finding the story, and the enthusiasm of bringing it to the page is like some prehistoric event. These thoughts come at 3 AM, thanks to the champagne, the cupcake, or both. Did I tell enough about the mother? Oh God. What have I written? I didn’t get deeply enough into that character’s head. It’s the best book ever!” And then, wham. ![]() You want to celebrate, drink champagne, eat an enormous chocolate cupcake and tell all your friends, “I did it. Yet, to me, one of the hardest parts of writing a novel is letting it go. But, the countless hours spent on dialogue that clunks along like the rattle in your car that the mechanic can’t fix, or the flashback that’s brought your narrative drive to a halt – these trials are part of the process too. You might experience the thrill of coming up with that one word that changes everything. Some days it’s nothing but a pleasure to revise, working on the rhythm, having the perfect metaphor seem to land in your lap. ![]() Sentence by sentence, word by word, the work of getting the prose just right. You love every word, but you have to take them all out.Įventually, you do the tedious revisions. How painful it is to discover you’ve gone off on a tangent, another 60 pages. Oh, the agony of finally understanding a character in the thirteenth chapter and having to re-write the previous 200 pages. How do you find the voice, where to begin, which point of view, the time frame, the setting? There are thousands of questions to consider, big and small. Then there is the problem of sticking to it, finding the time to write, getting blocked. ![]() Writers often talk about the difficulty of getting started. From the simple physical endurance of turning out all those pages to the emotional ups and downs of the creative act-it’s an enormous endeavor, consuming one’s life for years at a time. Katharine Davis just finished writing a novel.
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