Reading the Scene

Pick a place that you regularly visit. A place in your house, a park, somewhere in the neighborhood, the car restaurant. Go there and deliberately see it for the first time. What do you notice that, because of familiarity and routine, you ceased to notice. Become aware of the scene as much as possible. Look in odd corners, make the peripheral central. Take lots of notes. Record conversations. Observe the familiar in a writerly way.