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[donutsweeper]

Jack?  Please shut up.  You're supposed to be in a tale of intrigue and aliens, not having tea with a giggling four year old.  Remember the mystery?  The reason this whole stupid story is being written in the first place?  Do you think you can address that part sometime this century?

Plot=hard.  Tea and crumpets=fun.  *sigh*

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[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

If they're having fun, leave them to it. They'll find their way to a plot in the end.

I am of the firm belief that plotting is something that happens subconsciously as much as anything else, and it's not until I start writing or talking (pity miss_zedem who's been subjected to my ramblings in person...) that I work out what's going on. You just need a scenario, and a 'this is my point' idea, and then you can run with it.

Besides. Crumpets are yummy.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I'm not sure 100% what crumpets are...

But I'm just letting them ramble, I figure I can always trim out the scenes that don't work later. I'm pretty good at going at my stories with hacksaws and hand grenades without mercy.

I do have the scenario in mind, a vague sense of A, B, C etc- just no clear idea of how to get from A to B to C. I let my characters guide me, if that makes sense

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I'm not sure 100% what crumpets are...

Oh, crumpets are these wonderful little things. They're sort of like english muffins, they're all nook and cranny-y and they have a smooth bottom. You toast them and put butter on them or, my favourite, lemon curd or whatever (peanut butter is really good too). They're crispy and chewy and yummy. *nods* We eat them for breakfast at my house, but I'm sure they're good with tea too.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I've only ever heard of them in a vague 'they had tea and crumpets' sort of way. And the little girl is pretending to be all proper so is pretending the cookies are crumpets.

those sound GOOD though!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Nook and cranny-y like? Yes. Like an English muffin? NO no no no no *makes a sound of distress*
Sorry. And Peanut butter on one is just wrong ♥

Scrummy looking picture (http://www.jupiterimages.com/popup2.aspx?navigationSubType=itemdetails&itemID=22196338)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

do people really have them with tea?

(or is it okay for an american kid to think people do, anyway?)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

They are a officially a cold weather teatime thing :D although we (well my family at any rate) will eat them for breakfast as well.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

only cold weather? Not in warm weather? Well, I guess it doesn't matter because they are actually cookies anyway. She's offering Jack and her stuffed bunny rabbit them and calling them crumpets

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just read an article in the Bathroom Reader I got for Christmas that specifically said that crumpets were made in a similar manner to English muffins. I was just trying to help our Yankee friend out. What are they more similar to? Pancakes, perhaps? Or perhaps they're just similar to crumpets.

I am a Canadian, so crumpets aren't exactly a national food around here. I blame that for any torturing of crumpets through unnatural toppings that may occur at my hand. I call being the poutine expert, however. ;-P

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you're torturing poor crumpets now? Have you any shame? *g*

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I didn't know, I swear! I am an innocent Canuck who's father buys 'English crumpets' at the grocery store. I like them with peanut butter. I fail at crumpets, apparently. *sobs*

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Technically speaking they are a sort of bread dough that is then fried like a pancake instead of being baked in an oven. What most people are familiar with is buying them ready made and heating them up.

I googled poutine and that looks kind of strange - cheese curds and gravy? Is it tasty?

OMG I then googled English Muffins and jeepers what some of those places say is a muffin is not something I recognise. Maybe foodstuffs need latin names like flowers so there can be no confusion?? A teatime muffin is something akin to a bagel but with no hole in the middle and not of such hard consistency. To toast a shop bought muffin toast it top and bottom THEN split it in half and then apply butter and spread to the untoasted side.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

you may be onto something here. What one person considers a certain food stuff isn't necessarily what another person thinks it is.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

This is a crumpet:

(http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/jadesfire2808/?action=view&current=Crumpet.jpg)

And if you google wrong, you will get rather unexpected results, involving women and not a lot of clothes. And no, I don't know how the association came about...

What you've described is pretty much how I work. I never know what's going to happen, how it's going to end or how they're going to get there. Fortunately, the characters usually do :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh my... yes, google can make some interesting suggestions to what you are looking for! *eep*

I'm glad to hear that other people write this way. With luck Jack does know what he's doing. I guess I'll just have to trust him

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

That is indeed a crumpet :D I cannot for life of me find a decent picture of what we'd call a muffin though :(

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

It was tricky, but I found this article (http://www.imaginatorium.org/words/muffin.htm) which sets it all out quite well...

You know, I should be answering emails, not traipsing around the web in search of bakery items.

This is so much more fun :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I lead people to distraction *iz sorry*

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Drat it I think I saw a smaller version of that picture and skimmed over it :( Stoopid me

This *is* much more fun :D

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Muffin!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oooh, and a chocolate one no less. YUM!

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

ARGH! *Crosses self*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*Crosses self*

why?

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Crumpets are evil.

Actually, I have to admit, I haven't had them since I was a child. But they were revolting back then.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

I think I'll stick with scones thank you.