The smell of cheap, store-bought popcorn, the smell of crayons and glue, the smell of freshly-cut grass on a summer evening: these among many others, are strong olfactory triggers that, if consciously engaged, can take a writer swiftly to another place and time.

In this Idea Box exercise, we explore the power of following the nose to create sensory-rich snippets of memoir writing that can, if diligently pursued, result in many pages of memoir.

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