https://diymfa.com/writing/find-your-talisman-guest-post-by-katherine-grace-bond/ Tools & Techniques for the Serious Writer Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:10:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://diymfa.com/writing/find-your-talisman-guest-post-by-katherine-grace-bond/#comment-451 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:25:14 +0000 https://diymfa.com/?p=1884#comment-451 Florence, I love that!

]]> https://diymfa.com/writing/find-your-talisman-guest-post-by-katherine-grace-bond/#comment-450 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:34:46 +0000 https://diymfa.com/?p=1884#comment-450 […] begin with Katherine Grace Bond’s (@KatherineGBond) guest post on DIY MFA, Find Your Talisman. The talisman she’s referring to is some object that serves as a metaphor or symbol for the […]

]]> https://diymfa.com/writing/find-your-talisman-guest-post-by-katherine-grace-bond/#comment-449 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:02:56 +0000 https://diymfa.com/?p=1884#comment-449 Dear Katherine,
What a marvelous piece you’ve written. So tangible to connect with a power object!
I want to share some metaphorical edibles, touched by my characters who ran a bakery. One sister was like crusty bread, dependable, and later reinvents bread. The middle child was juicy, like a slice of cherry pie on a china plate and uses the creation of cherry pie as therapy for war vets. The youngest is as precise as the alignment of a chocolate layer cake and will capture a cake saboteur.
Yes they touched the baked goods, and as a writer I felt the sticky textures while readers sniffed memorable aromas!

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