{"id":133,"date":"2010-01-29T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:57:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:57:18","slug":"research-is-actually-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/research-is-actually-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Research is Actually Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Research is not, as I said the other day, funny.\u00a0 Research is dangerous.<\/p>\n

First of all, I have this habit of putting food in my novels that is way too delicious.\u00a0 In two separate stories–one, Nice and Mean<\/em>; the other, one called Not That Girl<\/em> that may someday be unleashed to the world–I prominently featured doughnuts.\u00a0 Every time M and E would make up, or J, M, Z and B would gather at the shopping center, I would have to stand by and watch while they stuffed their mouths with chocolately, cakey goodness and try not to care that I didn’t–and shouldn’t–have any in my house.\u00a0 It was particularly rough when M wiped the extra glaze off the wax paper and then ate it.\u00a0 That’s what I would do!<\/p>\n

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Then there was–and is; in contrast to the doughnut scene, this part made it into Nice and Mean<\/em>–the matter of ravioli.\u00a0 There’s an important scene in which Marina and Sachi eat ravioli.\u00a0 I love ravioli!\u00a0 Marina accidentally pours too much parmesan onto hers (I seriously hope this does not count as a spoiler), but I would eat it\u00a0like that anyway.\u00a0 I think they’re eating peas at the same time…I love peas with my ravioli!\u00a0 Every time I’d revise that scene, I’d be tempted with the prospect of a ravioli lunch, and let me tell you, there is a lot more fat in ravioli, even cheese ravioli, than you realize.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But now I think I’ve taken the cake for myself–or even, ha ha, the Cakesters.\u00a0 In my camping story, <\/em>workingly titled The Book\u00a0of the Dead<\/em>, some genius sent my characters Oreo Cakesters.\u00a0 It’s important how many come in a pack, so just now (before lunch, I might add), I went online to find out and ended up having to look at this website:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nabiscoworld.com\/oreo\/cakesters\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why can’t they just have the info without pictures?\u00a0 It’s so mean and tempting.\u00a0 Now I want Cakesters, and I should not be having Cakesters!\u00a0 (I don’t mean to make this blog another lament along the lines of Women and Food Denial, but I very much doubt that most peoples’ healthy eating plans include regular consumption of Cakesters, especially in the middle of the afternoon.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

So I may be on the verge of deciding that I should forgo research–or at least, internet research on food.\u00a0 I am just going to make up all my facts from now on.\u00a0 Even if I need to learn how long it takes yeast for yeast to rise–too bad!\u00a0 I don’t want to be tempted with images of fresh-baked bread.\u00a0 They may be making their own veggie burgers from a mix, but I will just have to imagine the finished product, thank you very much (okay, maybe some people would balk at the idea of mix-made veggie burgers, but at this moment, when no peas or ravioli have crossed my path recently, I am finding it quite tempting.)\u00a0 If my subconscious is going to keep throwing tempting items into my stories, the least I can do is resist further temptation.\u00a0 And if I put errors in my story in the process, who cares?\u00a0 Wouldn’t you rather have me wrong than expiring of a heart attack before completing this novel?\u00a0 I would.\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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ps I am sorry if I tempted\u00a0you with the pretty pictures here.\u00a0 I had to get them out of my system.\u00a0 Of course, now they are in<\/em> my system.\u00a0 Hm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

pps It has been pointed out to me that I have not really made good on my tagline.\u00a0 Consider this a love song to cake…a song of the broken-hearted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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