The five senses can help us perceive the world around us.\u00c2\u00a0 Take away one of them and you’re\u00c2\u00a0bound to have an incomplete picture.\u00c2\u00a0 Touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight can provide a richer picture\u00c2\u00a0when describing settings and characters.\u00c2\u00a0 Any writer trying to set the reader into the material will make use of the senses.<\/p>\n
For example, clothing can indicate\u00c2\u00a0a character’s\u00c2\u00a0economic status.\u00c2\u00a0 Faded clothing in particular can\u00c2\u00a0let the reader know the person spends a lot of time in the sun.\u00c2\u00a0 Or combined the faded clothing with frayed cuffs, the person is unable to purchase a closet full of clothes.<\/p>\n
I’ve begun reading A Field Guide To Burying Your Parents<\/em> by Liza Palmer and it’s full of examples that use the senses.\u00c2\u00a0 The main character’s mother smells like Earl Grey and outside.\u00c2\u00a0 Bits of tea leaves float on top like fish food.\u00c2\u00a0 These little details make the characters and the settings come alive; it’s not flat writing.<\/p>\n Have you read or written anything lately that really stood out because the senses were involved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The five senses can help us perceive the world around us.\u00c2\u00a0 Take away one of them and you’re\u00c2\u00a0bound to have an incomplete picture.\u00c2\u00a0 Touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight can provide a richer picture\u00c2\u00a0when describing settings and characters.\u00c2\u00a0 Any writer trying to set the reader into the material will make use of the senses. For… Continue reading Writing with the Senses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[202,201,804],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-a-field-guide-to-burying-your-parents","tag-liza-palmer","tag-writing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}