Advice taken from a creative writing book
Sit in a café, buy a large coffee and note down sounds and what ideas come to mind from the sounds, then write character descriptions of people you see in café, read 'anything and everything' to broaden vocab.
Opinions on advice - average: drank coffee too fast, sounds are what one would expect (conversation, clanking of cutlery and crockery and stupid music playing). Any ideas drawn from these noises would be shallow but perhaps that's the point, there'll be a chance to be profound later.
As for people similar conclusions and opinions would be drawn (don't know what café the author went to that attracted a large variety of the weird and the wonderful people of the world).
However I'm going to ignore my cynicism and take advice from this book.
5 noises and what they remind me of
Sound of conversation
rustling bags
clinking of crockery
music
The sound of conversation:- sense of belonging and isolation (or welcoming and excluding), friendship, business, interaction school (dining hall), common room, the theatre (audience settling down before a show) , restaurants, vulgarity, sophistication
Rustling bags:- Shopping, supermarkets 9and other shops), bad weather, rubbish, landfills, the voice of of a guilty conscience of society
Chinking of crockery:- Eating, tidying up, washing up, dining areas (dining halls, restaurants, cafés)
Music:-Monotonous (reflects rhythm and style of work, lifestyles of people yet attempts to glamourise), irritating
[I am now getting irritable, going to go out for a cig] 1/12/2007, 3:37 pm]
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