Thursday, October 30, 2014

What's in Your Refrigerator?

"Begin an essay on the most boring subject you can think of, for instance: 'I went to sleep,' or 'I went to the store,' or 'I cleaned the house.' The sheer boredom of it may force your mind out of narrative mode sideways, into associations." - Patrick Madden

Start cleaning the refrigerator. Will you begin with the top shelf?  

Do you remove apples, a catsup bottle, something in a plastic box, or just clean around objects?

What do you store, like a secret, in the refrigerator?

Is something strange about items there?

What else is living in your refrigerator?

What would your favorite writer examine to put into words?
Think from Shakespeare to Stephen King.

Add sounds, a song, and mingle scents.  

Take a taste.


Play with words and notice how far you write from the notion of refrigerator.


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