I wasn't familiar with Totally Optional Prompts before you mentioned it,
Sharon - but I'll visit from time to time now. I'm normally visual, but
I try and draw on the other senses from time to time. I'd really like to
do things with smell, but our language for it seems very limited.
The only writer I've come across who consistently tries to convey the
idea of odours is James Lee Burke in his Robicheaux novels - and he
seems to rely almost entirely on simile/comparison.
> This week's prompt at Totally Optional Prompts was In the Ear:
> http://totallyoptionalprompts.blogspot.com/2008/01/totally-optional-prompt-in-ear.html
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> Reading this, I wondered if it were a response to that prompt. The first two
> lines, especially, how they sound like what they describe.
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