Today’s blog title was originally titled Food for Thought. I was going to blog on the ideal writing food.
I don’t mean food for your brain, or food to keep you from getting fat while sitting on your duff spinning flaxen dreams into the golden threads of fiction. Nor am I asking if anyone knows of a good site where I can crib recipes for the latest magnum dopus. No, I mean, what’s the best food to eat when you’re at the computer because as much as I like peanutbutter toast in the morning, I have a tendency to smear peanutbutter on the keys.
And, no, peanutbutter did not have anything to do with my hard-drive failure.
Anyway, I’m sitting here weighing and discarding hard boiled eggs and apples — not literally, mind you — most of my attention on yet another episode of The Professionals when the bat phone rings at the GGKFM Club House, and it’s Tasha — who, clearly, is of a more intellectual bent than myself.
It appears that we’ve actually scored a mention in the online Times Literary Supplement.
Granted, not for our books, fabulous and deserving though they are — probably not even for our blog so much as the catchy name of our blog — but we’ve got our fifteen minutes and no one can take that away from us.
You can borrow it, though. Just make sure you get it dry cleaned before you give it back.
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Trail mix. The kind with peanuts and raisins and M&Ms.
Or maybe toffee peanuts, but those get sticky, and when you pick up that post-it you put scene 12 on, the one where that guy does that thing? No, the other thing. Yeah, that one.
Anyway, your fingers stick to it and you try to get it off your hand and it only sticks to the other one and you spend a minute peeling the damn thing off and by then you can’t remember what it was you were trying to do with that guy in scene 12 with the thing, or maybe it was the other thing. Or maybe the other guy.
So, you just have another guy show up with a gun and stop worrying about it.
I have a lot of guys with guns.
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And congrats on the 15 minutes. That’s an hour and a quarter for the lot of you. More than most of us get. I had five minutes once, but they figured out it was for somebody else and gave it back.
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Diana is too modest to mention that she came up with the catchy blog name (excellent choice) and, Stephen, I loooove trail mix, too. That stuff is dangerously addictive!
by Sara
on November 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
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So maybe we should send this Peter guy a tub of trail mix to say thanks for the mention?
My favorite is the dried pineapple. Flaked (not shredded) coconut is a second favorite.
As for my fave writing foods, my first novel was written with the aid of many Utz thin pretzels and vats of Diet Coke. The novel has yet to see a respectable bookshelf so maybe I should switch to trail mix?
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Definitely trail mix. I think it’s fun to make my own though. Mine changes from time to time, but I usually throw in peanuts, M&Ms, honey-nut Cheerios or cocoa puffs (some other sweetened cereal - whatever’s on sale), cashews, mini-cookies, and sometimes chocolate chips. =oD
Congrats on the mention Good Girls! You may have only gotten it for your name, but you’ll keep getting mentions for your sheer awesomeness.
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Don’t EVER open a bottle of anything under pressure (Soda Pop, etc) anywhere near a keyboard. The keys of my day job laptop still stick a year and a half later from getting drenched by a plastic bottle of diet Dr. Pepper that had been sitting still for almost an hour before I opened it.
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You know, I LOVE those toffee peanut things, Stephen, but have you noticed that the toffee flakes? It flakes right into the keyboard. And yeah, very true about having to avoid Post-its. In fact, when your fingers get sticky enough, you’re glued to the entire keyboard — which isn’t a bad way to make sure you put in your daily eight hours.
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I know, I know! I think actually we have to divide the fifteen between the five of us, so it’s probably only about three minutes each. But hey! Ple-henty of limelight for moi — too much and I start seeing those little lines around my eyes.
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Hey, Sara, do you ever make your own CUSTOM trail mix? You buy that stuff from Costco and then you buy one of those boxes with 80 packs of peanut M&Ms, and every time you grab a handful of trail mix, you dump in a pack of M&Ms. It’s the perfect ratio.
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Pineapple. Hmm. That sounds almost healthy, Reggie. Not that there’s anything WRONG with that.
If only pizza wasn’t so greasy…it has a nice cyber-friendly shape, I think, even if the black olives do tend to fall off.
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Ah, thanks, B.E. 
Yes, custom-blend trail mix is really the way to go. And you have to start with a high grade base to begin with. None of those stale packs you find in gas station convenience stores.
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Good thought, Will. Especially timely as I’m sitting here watching my orange cream “clear” water bubbling gently in the sunlight….
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