Musings Before Bedtime

If they don't pay me in royalties, my friends, I think I might be willing to accept payment in the form of homemade butter or cheese. A well-fed writer is less likely to spend pages describing food, I think.

Perhaps aside from the "no grocery shopping while hungry" rule, there needs to be a "no writing while hungry" rule! Abraham Maslow did place the need for food at the bottom of his hierarchy for needs (where the most basic physiological needs were grouped). How can you strive for higher purposes if you're sleepless, thirsty, hungry, and so on?

I write (and work) better when I'm a little hungry, though. Maybe it was conditioning from all those years in graduate school. I suppose you'll have to live with my fixation on describing food in my work. :)

Ren "Hungry" D.