culinary and literary efforts

My son has watched me make cheesecake several times, and he really likes it. So when I gave him a few cheese crackers and a small raspberry yoghurt for a snack after a busy afternoon, he decided that instead of just eating them both, he would make his own version of cheesecake. He smashed the cheesy crackers into a fine powder, pressed it into the bottom of a bowl, layered the yoghurt on top and then attempted to bake this in the oven, decorated with some dried banana pieces. The smell was ... well, bad melted cheddar and overheated yoghurt combined, unspeakably vile even if you don't have a hormonally heightened sense of smell. He then dished this out onto two plates and gave me one, kindly found a spoon for me, and began to tuck into his own with great enthusiasm, but I'm sorry to report that even maternal love was not sufficient for me to do more than pretend to eat it and offer him mine too.

I think we'll make proper cheesecake soon, just to get the thought out of my head. And the smell out of my kitchen.

On the literary side, this Uncle Simon fic I am working on for the ficathon has hit 9000 words and is still going strong. It was only going to be three short scenes! And then it was going to be five, and now it seems to want to be eleven. I've got complete drafts of two of them, most of what I want for four more of them, and the other five are in varying stages of trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. The structure is developing, but I need more structure and more theme, I think. Along with figuring out where some of these scenes are going. But Simon's perspective on Miles and Miles's perspective on Simon are both deeply fascinating, and the development of their relationship as family is keeping me well entertained. But dammit, this was going to be a short fic! Also, I was going to have it finished before we go away, but unless I am struck by several successive flashes of inspiration very soon, that probably won't happen.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/89330.html