Welcome to Day 9 of my personal month-late NaPoWriMo challenge. You can check out my previous post here, or click here for Day 1.
Prompt 9: Use your Nose!
Our sense of smell is one of our most frequently neglected senses in writing, yet it’s a very important one. Scents are often associated with memories, and smelling is just as present as hearing and vision are in our everyday life.
For this prompt, I’m going to open a poem with a smell of my choice.
What comes to mind when you think of smell? The scent of the instant coffee your mom used to make in the morning that you tried when you were five and that tasted awful? Maybe the aroma of the giant cloud of axe body spray that followed your high school crush around. The smell of a campfire? Take a smell and see where it leads you.
I have a fairly weak nose myself, so my relationship with smell is a weird one. This should be an interesting day of the challenge for me.
If you try these, or any of the prompts I’m sharing throughout this month, let me know! If you try a prompt on your blog, share the link! I’ll check it out.
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