Setting things on fire

I sat outside today for a few hours and wrote, something I haven’t done in a while. It was very refreshing and I accoplished a great deal of rewriting (since I am in the middle of a scrap-and-redo for several chapters of a story). I came to a part where Abadoo, the main character, is trying to describe the scent of fire when, under amnesia, he does not know what he is smelling. I suddenly realized how long it had been since I had smelled something burning. I presently went home to remedy the problem.

It makes sense, does it not? In order to describe the smell of fire…one must smell FIRE!

This was my first attempt: paper. It seemed resonable enough, but produced very little smell.

So I moved on to bigger and better things.

Cardboard! This baby worked beautifully! I got exactly the smell I needed…not to mention it made pretty smoke. I created the description and now my clothes smell like fire. I am happy.

Don’t worry; I put out the small fire.

And all is well. Now to continue with the story…

~ haylee j.