Food on the Dark Side
This week has been a lot of fun - for me at least - with exploring food prompts. I could hold a second week on all the possible paths for a food theme to go, but I will resist.
I’ve talked positively for the most part this week. For today’s free write - at least five minutes and one hundred words - I want you to talk about the darker side of food.
You can choose to write about starvation. Or about the rising number of obese people. Or maybe you’ve had a severe allergic reaction to something. Or maybe, just maybe, you’ve taken a big bite of something and found something not so nice squirming inside.
Don’t make yourself sick (unless you want to), but write about your negative food experience(s). When you’re a writer, you want to make your readers feel something. What better way than to write negatively about something they all know and likely love?
If you’d like to read some foodie stories, check out this post and this post on Susan’s blog West of Mars.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:39 am
This week has had me thinking of my bean dip excerpts. Have you seen them? The soy sauce stories, too. But the ugly side of food is DEFINITELY the bean dip.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Girl, I have to get you on my blog feed reader. *grumble* I haven’t read the dips one, but I can only imagine… *shudder*
September 15th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Yes, you do.
You know, looking over my archives, I write about a lot of food. And I still need to complete the “what’s in xxxx’s kitchen” series, too.
Here are bean dip links in order, and there’s nothing to shudder about. The story arc was a lot of fun. Just, err, don’t light a match.
http://westofmars.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html#7337026296896534684
http://westofmars.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html#1622302950156469699
September 16th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Thanks, Susan.