Feeding the Muses

[emilybored]

Okay, do your writing muses (fandom or original fic) have their own eating habits? Because mine do, sometimes get obsessed with very specific food things, which then wind up part of my diet in order to write (currently, blood orange sorbet is figuring heavily

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[neo_nym]

[emilybored]

Fucking fantastic.
The steak has to be really really rare or it doesn't work (for me anyway) -- but if you do it right, it's a really good combination of crunchy and soft and spicey and mellow.

[neo_nym]

[emilybored]

I just wrote it, in the story (you'll see, it's DA chapter 15), like out of my head and was like, "hrmmm, I think that would be very good". It's based vaguely on a thai salad I once had which is seared beef, over crunchy sprouts, with lime and hot pepper, but it was just like one of those things, and then I went to the grocery store so I could be sure it worked in RL.