Paula Whyman, aka "curious writer," who recently guest-blogged here and was featured in a very cool Washington Post article on bread, is running a "creative jump-start" contest on her brand new blog: check it out and enter to win a beginner's guide to bread baking. Here's my entry in the contest:
Wash something--- yourself, the dishes, the dog--- anything. The act of washing calms the mind so that creative ideas, no longer repelled by turbulence, float in... to glide.... swanlike... One then proceeds to the desk....