JULY - Margaret Atwood
Exercise #1 - Washed-Up objects
Make a list of five or more objects that might be washed up on the shore of a beach. Do any of them trigger ideas for your writing?
Exercise #2 - Sense of Touch
Communicating how something feels to the touch need not always be through associated descriptive words, such as "soft skin." Making unusual associations to describe how something feels can make the sensation of touch more powerful. The description might be relating to how something else normally feels. For example, water can feel not only wet but like the touch of a loved one, a caress. In the "The Penelopiad", Margaret Atwood writes "Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress."
Write down a few objects or materials that you might touch. Next to this write an adjective to describe what it feels like to the touch. Then write down how it makes you feel when you touch it. Then write a sentence that includes a description of how it makes you feel when you touch it.
Exercise #3 - Four Seasons
Imagine a setting and describe the place four times, changing each description according to thge season.
Winter - Spring - Summer - Fall
Exercise #4 - The view from the top
Write a short 2 pager using the following line for inspiration:
"The view from the top..."