Prompt: Describe Your Favorite Food

So I’m participating in National Novel Writing Month, which is a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I’m already behind :p

But the point is to make the effort, and so I shall.

Meanwhile, I will get back to posting daily prompts, although I may not write to them. But *you* can!

Today I was thinking about the food in my WIP. There are many scenes describing the foods on this new world, a combination of familiar favorites from Earth, and new things that appear on the new planet, Mira. One in particular is a fruit that has slightly psychotropic effects, cross-wiring the senses, so that it seems you taste color and see sound, for instance.

Today as I was driving around in the brisk fall sunshine, I was suddenly reminded of the movie City of Angels, with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage, in which the angel asks the human to describe eating a pear (and later, the significance of a pear lying on the road).

I’m a big believer in incorporating elements of real life, memories, etc into your writing, because it lends a strong feeling of reality, a depth of experience and nuance to your storytelling that will help to draw in your readers. You might be writing high fantasy, gritty urban fantasy, or far-flung science fiction, but your characters will benefit from your own experiences, memories, and sensory explorations.

One way to delve into this is through journaling or memoir writing. I attended a meditative journaling workshop a couple of years ago, and the memory I wrote about became an important scene in my first novel WIP. As I was thinking about the movie scene and my WIP today, I had some ideas for one or two additional or expanded scenes, at least one featuring food.

So here’s my prompt for you: Describe your favorite, or least favorite, or the most unusual that you can think of, food to someone who has never seen or tasted it. Think of how it looks, how it smells, its consistency, how you eat it, and really describe it in as much vivid detail as you can.

Maybe it’s just an e Think of how it looks, how it smells, its consistency, how you eat it, and really describe it in as much vivid detail as you can.

Maybe it’s just an exercise in descriptive writing using all your senses. Maybe it’s the kernel of a new scene in your own WIP!

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And so, with a loving heart, I offer you

Namaste

I’ve heard many translations. Here’s one I love:
The light of the universe that shines within me recognizes
the light of the universe that shines within you.

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Dogs in House	Houdini
Music Playing	Classical guitar
Time writing	15 minutes
November word count	1159