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comment by humanodon
humanodon  ·  4366 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: I Had a Dog Who Secretly Smoked All My Cigars

Ah ok. When I read this:

    The goal is to put together unrelated items and see where they take you, to get you out of your usual writing habits, to improvise.

it reminded me of a thing I do to fool around with imagery sometimes. I read an article a while back that asserted that hearing is the sense of touch at a distance the way that smell is the sense of taste at a distance. It didn't go into the sense of sight though. Anyway, if hearing is to smell as touch is to taste, then you can get images like, "I had a dog who smelled of secrets and had cigar-wrapper skin".