Sit down and evaluate the reasons you want to write. Go steps beyond because it makes me feel better or wanting to see your name in print.
Do you wake every morning with writing on your mind? Is this something that is on your bucket list? Do you have something special to say?
Spend five minutes free writing about each of the following emotions:
Pain
Anger
Joy
June 24 is “Celebration of the Senses” day. This day is meant to serve as a reminder to treat yourself to a stimulation of the five senses: taste, touch, scent, sight and sound.
To help you exercise your descriptive writing skills, keep your journal handy for the rest of the day. As you experience different sensations, capture its description in your journal.
You can simply describe the sensation on the spot or jot down a quick note to do it later. For example, describe what you ate, something you touched, something you saw, etc. The description does not have to be in the context of a larger story, simply the sensation itself.
Another way to flex your senses is to take an object and interact with it using as many senses as possible. It could be as simple as a book. How does it look (width, length, thickness, cover graphic)? How does is smell (old, new, musty, the ink, the pages)? How does it feel (hard, flexible, thin pages, porous pages)? How does it sound (when you flip through the pages, drop it on the floor)? How does it taste…Ok, we can exclude this one because I don’t want you licking any books.
