Tuesday, October 28, 2008

campus preview night: finding inspiration: chocolate and writing

Tonight I'm going to share with you one of my favorite class exercises: a chocolate tasting!

First, I'll discuss the role of chocolate in writing (inspiration, joy, energy burst), and then discuss how doing a chocolate tasting can expand your senses and your writing!

We'll describe the difference between eating and tasting, and then list how all of our 6 senses can be used to taste chocolate (or any other foods, really).

Then we'll dive in to our tasting and begin to make some notes, transforming our sensory impressions into writing. Voila--a delicious beginning!

2 comments:

donna said...

Chocolate enhances reading too!

Dr. J said...

it sure does:) this time of year I especially like hot chocolate with marshmallows!