The Playwright's Guide to Submitting Smarter: A Baker's.
Request a dozen eggs from a farmer, a dozen steaks from a butcher, or a dozen pencils from a traveling office supplies salesman, and you will almost certainly receive 12 of your chosen item (counting errors do happen). But a baker’s dozen is commonly understood to mean 13. Are bakers just bad at.Dozen is a collective noun, like committee. Collective nouns name groups of people or items. If the group is seen as identical or as acting in unison, the noun is treated as singular. If individuals in the group do not act in unison, the collective noun is treated as plural.So began the practice of adding an extra loaf or roll to every dozen sold, ensuring that the weight was more than required. The extra bread was called 'in-bread' or a 'vantage' loaf and I'm sure this generosity did no harm to customer-relations. The baker's dozen is an idea that persists to this day.
A Generous Baker’s Dozen: Writing Guides by Women (Mostly) in no particular order The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton Great book by the first woman to win the Pulizter Prize. Not only that, she has a chapter on Marcel Proust. Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood.Another Baker's Dozen poem cycle I am writing based on April 2009's INSPIRATIONS prompts.
Get to Know Autumn Doerr, Author of Baker’s Dozen Autumn Doerr, author of Baker’s Dozen: A Lexi Fagan Mystery shares with us her thoughts and inspirations while writing her new book. What inspired you to write your book? I was missing San Francisco where I had lived during my 20’s.
