[perfect, and once the vanilla is done, the next step is lemon rind, she remembers. a quarter teaspoon, grated - she can grate, if Kaede can tell her when to stop. it's a careful job, but as long as she's steady, there shouldn't be a problem.]
Not mysteries, no...I've been trying my hand at fiction, but what I like to write most of all is poetry.
[and that, she had been hard at work with. if she stopped trying to make her fiction read a specific way and just wrote, it was coming out better, if more poetical.]
Words...I love them, and how the right words help us communicate, and even to express things that we might not be able to know the shape of. You can know another's heart by their words - what they mean to say, what they haven't said. So I want to write poetry and express to others how wonderful life is, when they might not perceive it themselves. But also to go try and give form to sentiment that feels so big it wants to defy language - that's the challenge then, to a writer.
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Not mysteries, no...I've been trying my hand at fiction, but what I like to write most of all is poetry.
[and that, she had been hard at work with. if she stopped trying to make her fiction read a specific way and just wrote, it was coming out better, if more poetical.]
Words...I love them, and how the right words help us communicate, and even to express things that we might not be able to know the shape of. You can know another's heart by their words - what they mean to say, what they haven't said. So I want to write poetry and express to others how wonderful life is, when they might not perceive it themselves. But also to go try and give form to sentiment that feels so big it wants to defy language - that's the challenge then, to a writer.