{"id":11438,"date":"2022-03-11T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=11438"},"modified":"2022-03-09T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:14:02","slug":"what-nourishes-you-prompt-636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/what-nourishes-you-prompt-636\/","title":{"rendered":"What nourishes you? Prompt #636"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Prompt<\/strong>: What nourishes you?\u00a0 Write for 15 minutes. Use sensory details:\u00a0 sight, smell & sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next: Picture the kitchen in the house you grew up in. See the table and chairs, the counter, the cupboards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open a cupboard . . . or walk into the pantry. Take a look around. Open the spice cabinet. Breathe deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompt<\/strong>: What food reminds you of the kitchen in the house where you grew up in? Memories surrounding that food?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prompt<\/strong>: Take a few words from previous two freewrites and expand, or describe, using smell and sound. For example, from \u201cThe Martian Chronicles by\u201d Ray Bradbury:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There was a smell of Time in the air tonight . . . What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like, it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. Time looked like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theatre one hundred billion faces falling like those New Year balloons down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use sensory detail: Smell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does rain on asphalt smell like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does a crunchy red apple smell like? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mentally walk through an apple or a pear orchard where the earth has recently been plowed. Describe that earthy smell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does a redwood forest smell like, deep in the grove where it’s quiet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might smell old or ancient and calm. What does old, ancient, and calm smell like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

old . . . smells like parchment paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ancient . . . smells like musty book<\/p>\n\n\n\n

calm . . . smells like summer rain candle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use sensory detail: Sound<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does old, ancient, calm sound like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

old sounds like coughing and wheezing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ancient sounds like rattling breath<\/p>\n\n\n\n

calm sounds like church . . .\u00a0 sitting in an old Catholic church in the middle of the afternoon with no else there. That’s calm.
The neurological impact of sensory detail<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagery and sensory detail ala Adair Lara Prompt #277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

33 Ideas You Can Use for Sensory Starts Prompt #278<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prompt: What nourishes you?\u00a0 Write for 15 minutes. Use sensory details:\u00a0 sight, smell & sound. ********************* Next: Picture the kitchen in the house you grew up in. See the table and chairs, the counter, the cupboards. Open a cupboard . . . or walk into the pantry. Take a look around. Open the spice cabinet. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[365,1734,980,1735,1190],"class_list":["post-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-adair-lara","tag-ray-bradbury-2","tag-sensory-detail-taste-sensory-details-kinesthetic-motion-in-writing","tag-the-martian-chronicles","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2Yu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11441,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions\/11441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}