Baking a Cake

Pep Talks, Warnings & Screeds by George Singleton, illustrated by Daniel Wallace

If you have a writing teacher of some sort, please do not give him two paragraphs of a story and ask, "What do you think?" That would be analogous to saying, "Hey, I'm thinking about baking a cake. Taste these raw eggs and tell me what you think. Later, I'll let you eat a packet of yeast."