The Great British Blog Off: Caribbean Rum Cake
Happy New Year, internet people! This is my first blog post of 2021, although I baked the cake on the last day of 2020. These past weeks have been slow and reflective for me, even more so than the usual still at the end of a year. I wrote earlier about my intentions and goals for this fresh new year , and here I am, pursuing one of the biggest ones: writing. This blog has been my way of slowly returning to a more consistent writing practice, of feeling my way back to thinking of myself as a writer. Towards the end of last year, I began working on my book manuscript, which I hadn't even been able to look at after my thesis board in 2018. It's taken me a long time to process some of the feedback I received, and I'm finally ready to return to the work and bring the past two years of learning and reflection into the draft. It is scary to return to some of this material, and scarier still to bring in new ideas and consider the ways in which my material has shift...