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Nov. 6th, 2009 01:06 pm
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Didn't do too well last night. I was supposed to be starting the sex scene (word-count guzzler! idiocy!) but kept prevaricating and bulking out other bits instead. 1,000 words short of target, and just before falling asleep last night, started having the 'argh, I don't have enough plot to do the full 50k' wibbles. Morning, I gave the bunnies a thwack and pointed out that I'm nearly a fifth through and am nowhere near finished with act 1 of 4, possibly 5, and that's not including the shipwreck framing device.

Possibly didn't help that I kept being seduced by Harry Potter future aus. The satisfying kind about relationships and jobs and trying to cope with life and general fallout, that completely ignore the idiotic coda JKR wrote where everyone perpetuates the status quo. My only problem was the occasional mention of foodstuffs/things that you simply cannot get or aren't made in the UK. 'No-one would make that! Seriously, what the hell is that? ...You didn't just have an English character refer to zucchini. Cooked breakfast on a workday - don't make me laugh*.' A Britcheck, for the love of the FSM and Snape's L'Oreal contract. Is it so difficult?

*Cooked breakfast : not a usual feature of the average british kitchen on a weekday. Cereal or toast. Cooked breakfast is perfectly allowed on weekends, on holidar or if you're a builder/cab driver. We excel at cooked breakfast as a nation, it's just that the majority of the time if someone's eating it for breakfast they didn't get it cooked at home, they bought it.

Date: 2009-11-06 03:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cidercupcakes.livejournal.com
Cooked breakfast on a workday - don't make me laugh

To my knowledge, that's not even all that common in America, either, is the weird thing. Huh. Maybe it was just my household or my area, but the only time we got cooked breakfast on a weekday was special occasions (first day of school, when we were little enough for that to be a big deal), or those weird days when the federal government had a holiday but our school district didn't close, so Dad wanted to spend ~quality time~ with us and would make pancakes (it was always my Dad who did the cooking, never my mother).

And now, none of the single people I know do more "cooking" than instant oatmeal or anything you can make by sticking it in the toaster for a couple of minutes while you suck down your caffeinated beverage of choice (excepting, occasionally, one of my friends, but she's a tattoo artist and the shop she works in doesn't open until noon, so she's got more time in the mornings). I guess maybe it's still a common enough feature of TV or homes where only one parent works to go into a story? Or is even that much "cooking" unusual?

Date: 2009-11-06 07:49 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, agreed. I think my parents do a cooked breakfast most days now that they're both retired, but certainly when I was growing up it was cereal or similar pretty much every morning before work or school.

I wouldn't characterize cooked breakfasts on a workday as an American thing, either -- it might be in some areas or social classes, and it might've been in the past (at least as an expection), but not as a general thing in my experience.

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