by DanieKimFord | Jul 18, 2012 | Better Made Potato Chips, Boston Cooler, Character Emotion, Detroit Foods, Faygo, GUilty Pleasures, HIW Series, How I Write, Synopsis, The Not So Dreaded Synopsis, Uncategorized, Vernors, World Building
The subject: Name a guilty pleasure – one that is writing related and one in real life Writing Guilty Pleasures One of my biggest guilty pleasures when it comes to writing is world building, synopsis and emotions. I like writing character emotions. Delving in...
by DanieKimFord | Jul 17, 2012 | Composed Salad, Concasse, Culinary Terms, Make It Your Own, Recipe, Recipe of the Week, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vinaigrettes & Dressings
This is the vinaigrette I used for my composed salad for my A la Carte finale for my final practical for school. Chef loved my salad and said the vinaigrette rocked. I did a composed salad of chopped romaine and chopped grilled romaine with marinated tomato concassé...
by DanieKimFord | Jun 19, 2012 | 3-2-1 Dough, Basic Pie Crust, Chicken Pot Pie, Deep Dish Chicken Pot Pie, Old-Fashioned Recipes, Recipe of the Week, Recipe Redux, Recipes, Uncategorized
Double Crust aka Deep Dish Chicken Pot Pie As you can tell, my family ate/eats a lot of chicken. Again I am going to provide the old-fashioned recipe and the update recipe. Old fashioned recipe: This is the basic Betty Crocker®/Bisquick® version of the recipe. The...
by DanieKimFord | Jun 17, 2012 | HIW Series, How I Write, Pet Peeves, Reader Pet Peeves, Uncategorized
The question is: List your top 3-5 pet peeves as a reader that you’ve caught yourself doing in your writing. Answer: 1. This is the only one I’ve caught myself doing when I write. But it tends to be in the rough/first draft stage. Sometimes I tend to show...
by DanieKimFord | Jun 5, 2012 | Chicken and Dumplings, Chicken Stew, Dumplings, Old-Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings, Old-Fashioned Recipes, Recipe of the Week, Recipe Redux, Recipes, Uncategorized
Everyone knows I am a cook as well as a writer. One thing I also get asked is what’s my signature dish. I always say chicken and dumplings. It’s one of the first things I remember making. Now there are thousands of Chicken and Dumplings recipes to be found...
by DanieKimFord | Apr 5, 2012 | Drama, Ponderings, Uncategorized, Writing Questions
What’s your favorite book? Is it filled with action and drama? Does it have romance? Or romantic elements? Or does it focus on the relationships of the people (characters) in the book? I’ve been thinking about drama lately. How we love it in books, movies...
by DanieKimFord | Feb 21, 2012 | Hearts & Arrows, Light Paranormal, Story Sparks, Uncategorized, Womens Fiction
Here are a few story sparks for one of the stories I’m currently working on Can you guess what’s it about? How about now? The title is tentatively called – Hearts & Arrows. It’s a light paranormal, women’s fiction...
by DanieKimFord | Feb 17, 2012 | Alfred Hitchcock, Genres, How I Write, Uncategorized
The question is: Why do you write in a particular genre? What attracted you to it? Do you like to read a genre you don’t or can’t write? Why? Would you like to try a different genre than you current write? Here’s the breakdown: I write in a variety of...
by DanieKimFord | Feb 13, 2012 | 2012 Goals, Accountability, February Goals, Goals, Uncategorized
Well I learned a lot in the short time we’ve been in the year 2012. So I started working on Entrapped. Then I had a big computer crash. I lost a few of my world building books/notebooks. I lost a lot of my music and videos and pictures. And I lost 22K on...
by DanieKimFord | Jan 31, 2012 | Accountability, Goals, January Goals, Uncategorized
Here’s how the goals have come along this month: I wanted to finish Recipe for Love and have it ready for submission by January 31st (today). – I ran into a few problems story wise and am still struggling with a few parts of the relationship dynamics of the...