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.
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4 min readMar 5, 2021
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.