Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with books it's ideas and words. The end result is the same though, you want people to eat them up.

Emma Shortt
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In a way, writing is like baking. In baking there is flour, eggs and the other ingredients as you have to mix them all together to make cupcakes. In writing, you have to mix all the ingredients of words and ideas together. These ingredients are words and ideas and you want people to eat them up.

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