Writing Prompt: What’s cooking – and a contest!
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January 2008
Today’s writing prompt comes along with a contest. And it is a very very kewl contest if I do say so myself.
A Cowboy’s Wife is having a contest on her food blog! You can win a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer and she’ll ship anywhere so everyone is eligible!
This is a very kewl prize for her first contest, and the blog is one of my favorite food blogs to visit. I’m sharing the contest here to let everyone have a chance to find out about it (contest lasts till the end of January), and because I really want a good chance of winnig the mixer. I need one, mine’s on its last legs.
The Writing Prompt: What’s Cooking
You can either have your character cooking something or trying to learn to cook. Maybe your heroine has plans to make a great dinner for the man she is romancing? I remember years ago my sister (then in her teens) wanted to impress a boy so she made spaghetti, poor girl, first time she ever made it and she refused to let our mom help. It came out of the pot as a spaghetti cake that was sliced at the table. Seems to me it was really good, but oh my, what a unique way to serve spaghetti.
I can just imagine some of the ways this could be used in a Sci-Fi novel, from the hero having his first experience with alien cuisine to his trying to explain a traditional Earth dish to an alien species.
In my own writing you can often tell what I was eating when I was writing, because it is often reflected in the stuff my characters are eating. So, go check out the contest at My Wooden Spoon via one of the links above, then get to typing and see what’s cooking in your story.
