Uncage the ordinary!

Do you feel caged in ordinary ?


During my process as a writer, I nurture my awareness to notice, collect and collate daily experiences. I transpose ordinary walks into adventures. Restaurants provide eavesdrop appointments with conversations around me. Body language shares slants of life to extrapolate for future writing. Each moment fills with curiosities and sensory input for the pen.

In the Autumn 2010 issue of “The American Scholar,” author Tony Hiss poses a notion of “deep travel" in his article Wonderlust. He writes, “deep travel has a distinctive taste. It often surprises us, stealing over us unawares. But it can be sought out, chosen, practiced, remembered, returned to.”

Hiss mentions the need for wonder to bridge into deep travel. “You slow down, you may stop altogether. You’re lost. You’ve got to find, and soon, some way to proceed, and so your senses are wide open, for the time being, everything and everyone is a potential source of information.”

Today, take time for wonderlust. Notice the questions that arise from everything around you. All you have to do is move through the day with all your senses open to make the extraordinary appear for you.

Creative Write:  Fly with your pen  from your cage of ordinary!

Nourish with Words

When you think of word nourishment in writing, what comes to mind? Do you employ writing that reveals all your senses to make your writing rich with imagery?

You nurture others with this style of writing. Readers will recall the great chef you became and the food of words you offered. They become fed by having the ability to move into the sensory world you have created. Their stomachs will fill and taste buds tingle.

Consider meals you have spent with family and friends. Focus on the details of outdoor cooking time in the summer. Recall the sizzle of meat upon the grill. write about the tang in the air that floated barbecue sauce and sweet scents to the table. Have you shared ethnic dishes from around the world.?

Many experiences nourish a life of words and food. Recipes inspire word usage in condensed forms. To cook, all you have to do is read. Like writing you can ad lib and add to taste also. That's the fun of a free flow of words and fixing a meal.

Creative Write:  Cook something in writing and share it with us.

Tasteful Writing

Consider spending a day writing with taste as your focus. See what you can develop using only the sense of taste and texture.


List emotions and feelings and see what might correspond in tastes to go with them.

Have you tasted the cranberry of curiosity?
Did you bite into the mushy apple of apathy?
With the grief of grapefruit, the tang races to the back of the tongue.
Consider a vanilla afternoon where you add malt to perk up the flavor.

How does your morning taste? Like pear juice with spritzes of almond?

What do rum-flavored buttercream frosting and meringue inspire?
Creative Write: Share your creative tastes below. Make us drool!