{"id":2884,"date":"2006-08-16T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:40","slug":"new-muppet-moppets-and-summer-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2884","title":{"rendered":"New Muppet Moppets and the Summer of Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t follow the small-fry world as much as some — after all, I do write YA lit — but every once in awhile, I like to read what’s going on in the land of memory and early childhood. There’s actually some pretty cool stuff — and some of it has started on TV. NPR reported<\/a> in May on the muppet Elmo’s father being deployed to some branch of the military. This is meant to address the half million children in this country<\/i> below the age of 5 with parents in the military. Quite a few books are being written on this topic as well, and for as long as this nation has been at war, I think it’s an excellent thing… It’s hard to fathom just how much little kids don’t<\/i> understand (and sometimes the adults are equally as clueless). Also, in lighter fare, Sesame Street<\/i> has just introduced its first female muppet lead character<\/a>. Ernie, Bert and Grover, move over.<\/p>\n

A rather sad commentary on the new airport regulations is a small spike in airport bookstore sales. Publishers’ Weekly<\/a> reports that longer stays at the airport mean more books bought, but store managers expect the numbers to drop as people become more accustomed to the airport wait times. I guess if your flight is cancelled or delayed for 12 hours as a friend’s of mine was last weekend, you’ll need all the literary help you can get. Many airlines would not allow passengers to carry iPods as carry-ons, so even books on tape or CD were out. Ouch! I’ll take a train, thanks…<\/p>\n

The LA Times<\/a> calls this not the Summer of Love, but the Summer of Food. Eric Schlosser’s teen aimed Chew on This: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Fast Food<\/a>, is listed among the handful of newly released books seriously addressing America’s food issues. I’m a little nervous about this trend of the ‘Summer of Food,’ as I’m working on foodie fiction, <\/em>and there’s a big difference in the ‘health message’ I’m prepared to tackle as a fiction topic. Sure, my character is sorta vegan, but she’s also rather fond of making good old Southern gingerbread and pecan bark.<\/p>\n

As always at this point in an edit, I am a little skeptical of the whole process. Why am I writing yet another food story to be one among millions<\/i>? Is right now simply a good time to write about food? Does my story have any merit on its own? Of course, if I don’t finish editing it, the question is totally moot anyway…<\/p>\n

Onward! A bad day writing is… well, pretty much like a bad day anywhere else. Only better. BIC!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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