Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
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After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.
Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.