LJ Idol Presents:

"Your food obsession continues! :) I agree with your self-assessment that it was too short. Deadlines get the better of us all sometimes and we make due with what we can get out there. But it makes me wonder - what do you think this particular entry could have been with a day or two more? You managed to get to another cliffhanger - would the story have stopped at the same place with just more details? Would the arc have progressed further? You've had a few extra days to think of the "might have been"s - in an ideal scenario, how would this be different?"

Food obsession?! Food obsession?! Well, okay. One of my favorite fun fanfics I posted was called Pancake Porn. What can I say? I enjoy writing about food. Like right now, I've got a little shepherd's pie thawing on the counter for later...YUM!

Oh, I had such plans for that piece! But I had less than an hour and a half to pull it together and post. It hurt. There was so much more I wanted to do, like delve into her mother's touchy subjects, more on her relationship with both her mother and her great aunt, and the stuff. Oh Gary, with more time, I could have drawn you such pretty "stuff" pictures.

It hurt my heart to post it, but it would have hurt my heart so much more to have missed the deadline so I'm so, so grateful for the heads-up I received. Because even a quarter of a story is better than no story at all.

(Love the pun, hon.)

:-)