Writing prompt #77: SENSES AND METAPHORS

Hi Everyone,

Recently, I finished The Peregrine by J.A. Baker, an astonishing book about tracking hawks over the course of one long season in a corner of 1950s England. But most essentially, the book is about seeing. “The hardest thing of all,” he writes, “is to see what is really there.”

Over and again I was struck by the quality of Baker’s observations, by the abundance of his fresh sensory descriptions. In describing the nightjar, for example, he writes: “If a song could smell, this song would smell of crushed grapes and almonds and dark wood.”

YOUR PROMPT: Use this last description as a template for cross-sensory descriptions of your own. For example, describe something you see with the qualities of sound. Or something you hear (someone’s voice, for example?) with the qualities of taste, and so on. Write at least 3-4 descriptions to help freshen up your perspective.

Enjoy!

Abrazos,

Cristina