The recipe said ‘hands-on time: 7 minutes, total time: 25 minutes’ and like a sucker, I believed them.I started on the waffles 30 minutes before my friends were due for brunch. “I’ll serve you waffles fresh off the griddle!” I said. “I can’t wait to show you this new recipe!” I said.My friends arrived to find me flustered and flour-covered, yelling about Waffles These Days and OMG did you know that waffles think they deserve whipped egg whites? Who do these waffles think they are?!In more experienced hands, maybe these fancy-ass waffles would have only required seven minutes of hands-on time, but in my not-accustomed-to-sifting-flour hands, this was a one-hour kind of recipe.But instead of mentally berating myself for my waffle-making failings, I remembered something my friend Katie told me.
Source: The Oddly Obvious Thing I Need To Be Reminded Of – Yes and Yes
Love the sage wisdom here that is so true you can count on it. Keep doing – it gets easier. But this gave me pause. Really? “I’ve been writing for 15 years – I can bang out a month’s worth of blog posts in a few uninterrupted hours.” I have been writing for longer than that – technical stuff, not blogging – but still, it does not get any easier and, in fact, the more I write the pickier I am that it be ‘best’ not just ‘good enough’ and it takes me f-o-r-e-v-er! Just sayin’.