“Practice: Wake Up Your Imagination Put yourself, in your imagination, in a place you like. Using all your senses, notice what is around you. What do you see, hear, taste, smell, and touch? Try to notice as much detail as you can. Then, without worrying about your words, jot down all the details in your notebook. Practice: Wake Up Your Imagination If you find this exercise easy, then try inventing a place and putting yourself there. Once again, use your senses to notice all the details; write them down. Practice: Wake Up Your Imagination Read a passage from one of your favorite writers, paying particular attention to the pictures being made in your imagination. Now read the passage again. Can you identify the words or sentences that put those pictures into your mind?”