Writing Process
How to Write Sensory Description that Will Grab Your Readers
An exercise to help you learn to write with sensory details.
Sensory writing involves (surprise, surprise) bringing all five of your senses into your descriptions. It’s an important part of drawing your reader in, no matter what it is you’re producing.
Well done sensory detail grabs your readers by the . . . nose. Or eyes. Or ears. Or tongue. Or their whole body. It drags them into the story (fiction or nonfiction) and puts them into it.
Pretty much every type of writing depends on the writer being able to call on the readers five senses. In other words, it’s far less about your senses and more about theirs.
This is where writers sometimes struggle, because the touch, taste, smell, sound, sight of the thing is already in their head. Getting it out of our heads and onto the page, so that it can get into our readers heads? That’s the thing.
But to engage their senses, you need to engage yours.
So, today we’re going to walk through a set of exercises that will help you to be a more sensory writer. I’m going to complete these exercises for you, here in this blog post so that you have a good idea of what I’m talking about.
