This Semester one of the projects we have been assigned is to work in groups and write an introduction to a cookbook chapter which will then be put into a 'Creative Writing Student Cookbook' with the rest of the class.
As part of this project we have been instructed to write a literature review using sources that examine food within creative writing. To put it bluntly this has been an utter pain in the arse!
However whilst researching and reading I found a quote by the author Margaret Attwood in an ebook called 'Food, Consumption & the Body in Contemporary Womens Fiction':
" If you define yourself as innocent then nothing is ever your fault- it is always somebody else doing it to you, and until you stop defining yourself as a victim that will always be true. It will always be somebody elses fault, and you will always be the object of that rather than somebody who has any choice or takes responsibility for their life. And that is not only the Canadian stance towards the world, but the usual female one."
I'm not sure exactly why but I found this really interesting. I think its something to bear in mind when trying to make characters seem more 'real'. I would hate to create a character thats a cliched victim. Also something to bear in mind in real life too.
