Roadtrip to NaNo: Add Heart and Soul to Your Novel

November is coming. To get ready, we’re taking a Road Trip to NaNoWriMo. On the way, we’ll hear from writers about how their cities can inspire your novel. Today Starling_Sinclair teaches us how New Orleans can teach us to turn our stale weeks-old plot into a rich and delicious novel:

New Orleans is a city of food, drinks, and affable atmosphere. Cuisine is the cornerstone of everything we do. We conduct business around meals; we catch up with friends over food; we love over dinner tables. It may therefore seem obvious that the best way for me to talk about writing is by talking about food.

Here goes: a good novel is like a bowl of bread pudding—comforting, warm, and absolutely delicious. But however enjoyable it is to devour bread pudding, it is incredibly hard to cook.