The memoir prompt for this week has to do with cooking and you have two options to choose from.

When did you taste your favorite fruit for the first time? If you don’t remember, imagine it. Goldberg says that imagining often leads to the real deal. Also, it might not be the first time it entered your mouth, but the first time you really tasted it and it became your favorite fruit.

Give a recipe you love. This could be as simple as pouring a glass of milk. How did you discover it? What did you serve it in? Who did you serve it to? Where did the ingredients come from?

Here are some tips from Natalie (and she goes into much more detail in the book) to help prepare for writing.

1. Nail down eternity right now. Give me this sterling moment, just as it is. (pg. 69)

Goldberg writes, “If you can learn to be present now, the past becomes clearer, more precise. You know who you are – then what you were.”

2. Read aloud what you have written. (pg. 74)

Read to yourself or to someone else. This is a way of hearing yourself and how your writing comes across to a listener.

3. Try sitting meditation. (pg. 76)

Meditation is a way of identifying what’s really going on in your mind. This is another way to practice being present. 

4. Walking (pg. 87)

Walking is a great way to reduce stress and bring clarity to a situation.

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