Open and Shut’ is today’s writing prompt.
Shut your eyes, and listen …
What can you hear, smell, feel? It is said that if you lose a sense, it can help to make your other senses work better. I don’t know if that is true, but doing this eye shutting thing, certainly makes it easier to hear, I think.
Write down what it was that your other senses could pick up, bird song, traffic, the winds? Was it cool, warm, hot? Could you smell machinery odours, kitchen ones, something from the garden? Write it all down.
Now open your eyes. Look around and write down five random things you can see. Give yourself ten minutes, and put those five things, together with your awakened senses pieces, in a piece of creative writing. Then look at what you wrote. Are you happy with the results? Try to use as many of the senses pieces in there as you can.
I have a lot of faith in this five random words idea. I’ve been doing it for quite a few years now, and have seen/heard some amazing responses, as well as enjoying writing in this way myself.
Adding in the senses part is a new thing, and using both parts? It should be good, I hope and expect it will work!
So, this is an open and shut of senses working over time! Are you ready? Go!
Are you surprised at where you went with those five things? The randomness seems to get the brain going in unusual directions at times, and that can be a fine thing.
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 