So apparently I’m gonna have to write an asexual cooking romance?
I had plans for today, like cleaning out my closet and finishing Ch12 of my current wip, but then SOMEONE tweeted this:
Someone please use this word in their next romance novel. Or any novel. |) https://t.co/Wtf0z3W3fs
— M.C.A. Hogarth (@mcahogarth) September 24, 2015
The tweet she tweeted:
BUTYRACEOUS : having the qualities of butter : resembling butter; also : yielding or containing a substance like butter
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 24, 2015
And then I wrote the first page of an asexual cooking romance on Twitter. The fact that I was binge-listening to 80’s rock ballads on Youtube all morning should probably shoulder half the blame. which makes it my fault, obviously
"Come on, Katie, don't be such a cooking snob! You know necessity is the mother of invention and all that jazz."
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
Katie eyed the butyraceous substance with doubt. "I don't know, I've never made this cake with anything but real butter before.
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
It might not turn out as good." Allie shrugged. "It'll be fine. Jared won't know the difference." "That's probably true," Katie said.
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
She tried not to make it sound like a terrible judgement against his character but Allie frowned at her anyway.
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
"Why do you dislike him so much? He's a great guy," Allie said.
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
Katie dumped the butter flavored shortening into the vintage stand mixer her grandmother had left her. "I don't hate him," she said.
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
She didn't. It was just hard to think about her best friend and long time roommate getting married and moving out in three months.
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
Abandoning her. She didn't know how to explain that to Allie without sounding weird.
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
This was the problem she had had all her life with her friendships. People tended to drift away from her into their romances. It was hard
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
to be left behind.
— J.M. (@pashte_writes) September 24, 2015
At least it will be a short book? I suspect a subject this close to my heart will make it go fast too.