The Proof of the Pudding... Is in the Reading
We writers – ha ha – we're so messy. We play with words like toddlers with pudding – pudding we assemble ourselves.
We have so many ingredients to choose from, and they're all so yummy; it's hard to know what to put in – or leave out of – the recipe. We want to be original. We need to be novel. Especially when we write genre stories, which can seem like "lite pudding" – light on substance, on meaning, on meat. Sometimes our pudding gets bad press (all plot, no purpose). Sometimes thats not fair; plenty of genre stories are loaded with meat. But sometimes its "just desserts."