Tasteful Writing

Spend 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 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: Write with creative tastes to make readers drool.

Writing Rituals

By performing apparently absurd rituals, you get in touch with something deep in your soul, in the oldest part of yourself, the part closest to the origin of everything.

 - Paul Coehlo

What do you consider rituals in your life? Do you have an exercise routine, a spiritual practice, ways to progress through stresses and strains?

Write about rituals, absurd or necessary.

Get in touch with your strengths that rituals enable.

Reach the "origin of everything" by writing.

The Write Reasons

Does, "I'll do it tomorrow" find its way into most conversations or move in your thoughts?

Why do you put off writing?  So many stories swirl around you with family and friends revealing their behaviors.

Amaze yourself by writing today and every day. When that feeling of procrastination creeps in, salute it and write about it.  Give it the power to motivate words instead of take them from you.

Happy New Year!  Enjoy and benefit from the first day of writing in 2013. Don't let anything get in the way.