{"id":1217,"date":"2006-08-20T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/using-the-five-senses.html"},"modified":"2006-08-20T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T03:30:00","slug":"using-five-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/using-five-senses\/","title":{"rendered":"Using The Five Senses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a writers&#8217; meeting today with a local group in Bowie. We did a free write before we started the meeting. We wrote things that used the five senses. I think it&#8217;s important to make your reader feel what you&#8217;re writing through taste, touch, smell, etc. It was fun doing the exercise and if you are familiar with my writing, you may guess that I chose to write about food. I described the following three desserts (some of my favorites) in such vivid detail that the other members wanted some: chocolate cake, lemon pound cake, and chocolate chip cookies. I have a couple of my favorite recipes on my website if you want to take a look at them:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/_wsn\/page8.html<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m reading Ain&#8217;t No River by Sharon Ewell Foster right now. I haven&#8217;t had time to finish it yet, but so far, I&#8217;m enjoying it. As soon as I finish this book, amidst taking care of my one-year-old son, running my household, spending time with hubby, going to worship services, etc., I&#8217;ll be sure to post my thoughts and praises about it on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<br \/>Cecelia Dowdy<br \/>www.ceceliadowdy.com<br \/>www.blackchristianfiction.com<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a writers&#8217; meeting today with a local group in Bowie. We did a free write before we started the meeting. We wrote things that used the five senses. I think it&#8217;s important to make your reader feel what you&#8217;re writing through taste, touch, smell, etc. It was fun doing the exercise and if [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-related-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-jD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}