Poynter Online - Writing with Your Nose Being an olfactory person, I like this "how to" article from Poynter. I remember riding my moped from the suburbs to the city, and being slammed by the shifting odors. I always imagined it would be a good exercise to write about the trip as if I were riding on the back of the moped with my eyes closed just describing the passing neighborhoods and zones based on smell. Here are a few I recall:

• Pulling away from my house the damp grass smell of a lawn that is dew-sprinkled and clean
• Passing the little woods in Evanston, cooler by degrees, and with the smell of air that hasn't sat behind idling engines for hours
• the sudden turn onto McCormick with its earthy sewage smell redolent of still water, muck, and dead fish
• accelerating past the dumpster of lard grease behind the Mexican restaurant, replaced by the sweeter but still cloying odor of the Greek's dumpster

Sit back, take a whiff, scratch and sniff. add some "sense" to your writing. Smell-O-Vision