***************** Kinesthetic (touch) ***************** back bone, balance, blend, blistering, bliss, bounce, brush, calm, connect, crush, cut, drive, feel, feverish, grab, hot, handle, heart, hit, lift, loose, love, massage, peaceful, prick, reach, push, rock solid, rough, rub, scratch, stir, stress, stroke, tap, touch, tranquil

***************** Smell ***************** aroma, bouquet, essence, fishy, flowery, fragrant, fresh, musty, odour, perfumed, pungent, rotten, scent, smell, sniff, snort, stench, stink, sweet scented, vapour, waft, whiff

***************** Taste ***************** acid, bite, bitter, creamy, crisp, delicious, devour, drink in, eat, fatty, fishy, fresh, greasy, juicy, lean, lick, lip smacking, luscious, meaty, melts in your mouth, milky, mouth watering, salty, peppery, savour, sip, sizzling, sour, spicy, succulent, suck, swallow, sweet, tangy, tantalising, tasty, wicked

***************** Thinking ***************** challenge, concentrate, consider, devise, dream of, dream up, experience, guess, know, learn, mediate, memorise, motivate, pretend, put on your thinking cap, sensation, sense, speculate, strategise, think, dream, true, understand, wonder.

But without discipline, all talent, confidence, creativity and ability in world won't get you published.

I can almost hear you say, "Okay, Mom, I get your point" (followed by a roll of eyes and an expression that says, "Now get off my back, okay?!"). And maybe that's how word discipline got its bad reputation in first place--from Mom, or other authority figures in our lives. After all, "discipline" has a somewhat negative ring to it, doesn't it? It reminds us of being sent to our rooms when we were children, or of school detention, or getting a warning from our bosses at work. And yes, that happens to be one definition of discipline--"treatment that corrects or punishes"--but in my trusty Webster's New World Dictionary, that is not primary definition. In fact, it's listed at number five!

Discipline primarily means "training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement." Isn't that what we writers really want, to develop habit of writing daily, submitting regularly, and pursuing our writing dream consistently? To constantly hone our skills and increase our successes? In that regard, discipline is our ally, not our enemy. While our imagination may send us into idle daydreams, and our observations may distract, dismay or entertain us, our discipline is one trait that will assist us in turning our daydreams into goals, and our observations into finished pieces of writing.

Here's to your writing success!