Marinating: A Recipe for Good Writing

A.K.A. Love is a lot like marinated chicken.


I could be writing this because I’m starving, or, if my nutritionist is reading this, because it’s my newly coined phrase for the writing process.

Say it’s date night and you, being the eternal darling that you are, decide to make some sort of fancy marinated chicken for your love…or sit down to pen the greatest proclamation of love and affection to be written this century. No matter, it’s the same process.

At the heart of it all is the chicken (yes, love is apparently like chicken…or at least in this reference it is). It’s the meat of what you’re trying to say, the canvas for your spice.

Let’s face it, people wouldn’t say “tastes like chicken” if chicken were that unique. Everybody loves, [most] everybody eats chicken. It’s universally applicable.
It’s that extra something that only you can bring to the table- the extra special blend of style, wording and character that make it your own. Throw them together and sit on it [not literally] and you’ll find that the things you want to say will come to you.

What you get is one savory dinner…or one really good piece of writing.