On Bread and Fiction

Writing fiction is like making bread. You need to know when to knead it, and when to just let it rise.

Will Buckingham
Creators Hub
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4 min readMar 5, 2021

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The other day, I took a break from my writing desk and went into the kitchen to make bread. There’s something therapeutic about the process of mixing flour and yeast and water, combining it, then turning it out onto the table to knead it into shape.

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Will Buckingham
Creators Hub

Writer & philosopher. PhD. Stories & ideas to make the world a better place. HELLO, STRANGER (Granta 2021): BBC R4 Book of the Week. Twitter @willbuckingham