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Mindful Travel Made Simple: Using Your 5 Senses

Mindfulness , Slow & Mindful Travel
August 14, 2024

You remember the trip as being special, even magical, but when it comes to describing what you did, the details blur. This often happens when we get swept up in the rush of travel, moving from one activity to the next without truly soaking in the experience. We miss the subtle intricacies, the transformative power of truly being present.

Travel can easily turn into a checklist of destinations and experiences, where the deeper, more meaningful aspects of the journey are overlooked. But mindful, slow travel offers a different path—it encourages us to slow down, to immerse ourselves in the present moment, and to truly engage with the world around us.

What is slow Travel?

Slow travel isn’t actually about the pace of the travel you go at, but more about the intention and the mindset that you take towards your travels.

You can take a slow travel approach to a weekend getaway just as much as you could for a three month sabbatical. The important thing is that you’re going about your travels with mindfulness and intention, which allows you to experience your destination on a deeper level, slowing you down mentally to be fully there in the present moment- or in other words traveling mindfully.

Grounding in Our Senses

One of the most effective and easiest ways to cultivate mindfulness while traveling is by grounding yourself in your senses. When you fully engage with what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, you naturally become more mindful, anchored in the present. As one of my teachers once wisely said, “You can’t smell tomorrow.”

By tuning into your senses, you can transform your travels into rich, memorable experiences that nourish both your body and soul, ensuring that the magic of your journey stays with you long after you’ve returned home.

Mindful Travel Through the Senses

To use your senses as a tool for mindful travel, remind yourself each morning before you start your journey to be present through your senses throughout the day.

When one sense naturally pulls you in, be it the smell of food you’ve never tasted before from a street food stall, or the smell of incense sticks burning in a temple, take a minute to pull in all of your other senses. What are you seeing and hearing? Is there something to taste or touch?

By doing this we start to ground ourselves in the present of what is actually going on around us, rather than being one foot in the present while our mind is focused on where we are heading to next on our daily itinerary.

When we start to make a habit out of this, we’ll start to see that our travel experiences deepen and become more nuanced, we start to notice the things we would have been oblivious to prior.

When we take a moment to really stop and notice the beauty that surrounds us, it’s a pretty incredible experience. There is endless opportunity to be abolsutly in awe of what we see everyday, let alone while we’re traveling.

To start to hone your new mindful travel practice, before you even leave your hotel or set foot outside, take a moment to notice the details around you—the play of light through a window, the texture of a wall, or the vibrant colors of your surroundings.

As you venture out, make it a point to truly see what’s around you. Notice the little things—the way a flower blooms on a street corner, the patterns of tiles in a local café, or the expressions on people’s faces as they go about their day. By starting your day with heightened visual awareness, you ground yourself in the present moment, making each scene more vivid and memorable.

Every destination has its own unique soundtrack—the honks of traffic, the chatter of locals, the rustle of leaves in a breeze. To heighten your auditory senses, tune into the sounds around you. Close your eyes for a moment and let the sounds come to you, without judgment or distraction.

As you move through your day, continue this practice of mindful listening. Whether it’s the sounds of the brids chirping, a rooster crowing, a street musician playing , or the gentle lapping of water against a shore, attuning yourself to these sounds can deepen your connection to your environment.

When you listen with intent, you not only hear but also feel the pulse of the place you’re in, making your travel experience richer and more immersive.

When were traveling, there’s so many new scents for our nose to discover. Each day, consciously engage with the aromas around you.

Whether it’s the earthy scent of morning dew, the aroma of freshly brewed coffee, or the fragrance of local spices wafting through a market, take a moment to breathe deeply and let the scent fill your senses.

By heightening your awareness of smell, you create a sensory map of your journey that lingers in your memory. Scent has a unique ability to evoke emotions and memories, anchoring you to a place in ways that sight or sound alone cannot.

Food is not just sustenance; it’s an integral part of the travel experience, offering insights into a culture’s traditions and way of life.

Each day, make it a point to savor your meals mindfully. Before you eat, take a moment to appreciate the presentation—the colors, the arrangement, the care that went into preparing the dish.

As you eat, focus on the flavors and textures. Notice how each bite tastes, how the flavors evolve on your palate, and how the food makes you feel.

By approaching each meal with heightened taste awareness, you not only enjoy your food more but also connect more deeply with the place and people who created it.

Touch is a powerful sense that often goes unnoticed in the flurry of travel. Yet, it can ground you in the physical world and deepen your connection to your surroundings.

Each day, make it a point to engage with your sense of touch. Feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, the cool breeze against your face, or the texture of local materials—whether it’s the rough stone of an ancient building or the softness of a handmade scarf.

By heightening your awareness of touch, you anchor yourself in the present, making your experiences more tactile and real. Let this physical connection to the world around you enhance your sense of presence and mindfulness.

Heightened Senses, Heightened Experience

Entering each day with heightened senses transforms travel, slowing us down and allowing us to truly immerse ourselves in the experience.

By consciously sharpening your awareness of what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, you cultivate a mindful travel approach, bringing presence to each moment.

So, as you set out on your next adventure, remember to approach each day with your senses heightened. Let the world unfold before you in all its richness, and allow yourself to be fully present in the beauty and wonder of your journey.

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February 2, 2021, five days and five senses: free writing as a daily practice, prompts to help you build stronger writing muscles every day.

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But it’s now February — a new month of that new year. Most wisdom tells us that behavior changes need 28 days of practice before they take hold as a habit. So February, with its 28 days, seems an apt time to dust off those discarded resolutions and start anew. And if you didn’t dive in on Feb. 1, that’s no excuse: Feb. 3 or 7 or 23 is just as good. The key is not the date on the calendar, but the doing of something each day.

To try to help, through the month we’re going to revisit some daily writing practices and perhaps introduce new ones if we bump into them. Let’s start small, which is how resolutions are actually kept: Not 20 pounds in a month, but no cream in your coffee in the morning. Not 10,000 steps a day, but a walk around the block, then around two, then three.

I just finished a weekend immersion writing workshop, via Zoom, with 10 writers who came to the course with a wide range of backgrounds and goals. Not all were or are journalists. Those who were wanted to up their game, or get back into it. One wanted to find what she felt she had missed in a graduate journalism program interrupted by COVID. Many wanted to explore writing memoirs or travel essays. I couldn’t fashion a one-size-fits-all workshop. And I didn’t feel I could ask busy people, already distracted by the demands of life, to spend their entire weekend writing and sharing and critiquing. Whatever we tried needed to be tried in small bites.

Don’t know where to start? Try short free writes with a simple prompt.

A week before the immersion weekend, we had a Zoom meet-and-greet, and I gave them this assignment, which combined daily free writes with sensory reporting/writing:

Sensory reporting (awareness) is a key to compelling storytelling, especially in the realm of narrative, poetry or essay. Humans — whom we write about and for — are sensory creatures. A key way to draw them into a piece about someone other than themselves is to use the senses as connectors. Senses also have the magical quality of being both specific and universal. They are at the heart of the physics of storytelling: The more individual and unique, the more universal. WRITING EXERCISE For each of the next five days, use one of the five senses to do a free-write: Monday: SIGHT Tuesday: SOUND Wednesday: TOUCH Thursday: TASTE Friday: SMELL Try the 4 + 4 + 2 method. (Four minutes of writing, then break for 30 seconds. Four minutes of writing, break. Two minutes. Done.) This means you should be spending no more than 12 minutes writing each day. Your free writes are not meant to be finished or polished pieces; they are practice . You may surprise yourself and produce a piece that feels complete. You may open a doorway to an idea or approach that has been eluding you. And you will learn to handle tools of the craft. This works best longhand: When you begin, keep going. Do NOT pause, scratch out or edit. Just keep your pen moving and moving and moving. Don’t know what to write? Then write: “ I don’t know what to write” as many times as you need, and take it from there. (The reason I encourage longhand writing is because it slows you down just enough to be thoughtful without thinking about it. The temptation to delete and rewrite on a keyboard is simply too great. And those of us who write or edit for a living can fall into a professional mode on the keyboard; we write the way our job expects us to write — not the way our story wants to be written.) Begin with a prompt so you don’t waste time trying to think about what to write. It really doesn’t matter. Don’t know what prompt to use? Then start with some simple variation of one of these: I remember the sight (sound, touch, taste, smell) of… (memory) OR I saw/see (heard, touched, tasted, smelled) … (current time) Pick a moment — often a description or quick scene — and go from there. Be specific and, as much as possible, factual. We are writing nonfiction. Stuff taken from real life is often more compelling than anything we can make up. And even if your goal is to write fiction, you need to plug into the senses of the real world. Some of the senses will work better for you than others. Again, it doesn’t matter. What does is that you tune yourself into the world — pay attention — and describe it as concretely and evocatively as you can.

Two days in, I was getting emails of distress: Am I doing this right? I started with a sense but kept getting philosophical — what am I doing wrong? How long is my free write supposed to be?

Then we gathered for the weekend, dug deeper into the soul and tools of writing, did two more free writes with different prompts, and each of them read their free-write of choice. The best word I can use to describe my reaction to their work is humbled.

I asked them to comment on what the exercises taught them. Here are three, shared with permission:

I’m pretty Type A, so free writing does not come naturally to me (as an example: I did pre-reporting to check facts about the stuff I knew I wanted to free write about…). So I was surprised when setting a timer and just letting loose actually worked. Usually, I’m way too absorbed in trying to write something “good.” Free writing let me get out my shitty first draft without wasting time editing as I went along. There will be time to go back and rework — this helped me just get it out quickly. Writing is a practice; I won’t improve unless I work these muscles regularly. Free-writing can help me do that, in about 10 minutes a day. ~ Kristin Kellogg, communications manager at a nonprofit I absolutely loved the free writing, using the five senses as prompts. When I’m working on a story or an essay, it’s easy to write down details for sight and sound, but I don’t usually give a lot of love to the other senses. I forget about them. I had an interview in the latter part of last week with a man who grew up working at a fertilizer factory on Long Island, and I found myself asking him if the plant smelled. I’m not sure I would’ve thought to ask him that if I hadn’t just done a free write on smell. ~ Caren Chesler, freelance science journalist I expected and did experience significant discomfort in these assignments. Free-writing removes the structures we cling to that we think keep us safe and accepted. By taking away the guardrails, my thoughts started fast-walking me alongside a cliff, and damn if it wasn’t windy out there. When I felt myself stepping back by disengaging or purposely not writing what was on my mind, I realized I was either trying to make myself look good or avoid looking bad. Like anyone, I don’t want to be misunderstood or mocked. It’s scary to push through and accept that I can’t prevent, predict or ply a reader’s reaction. But when I gave myself permission to write some truly shitty sentences and to stop expecting ju dgment , then my free-writing revealed much more than my insecurities. ~ Mike Wells, freelance journalist and marketing content writer

Confession: I have never been comfortable with free writing myself, or journaling of any kind. Or maybe, as a daily newspaper reporter for much of my career, I was free writing every day; we just called it writing on deadline.

It’s the dailiness that builds the muscles, the discipline of actually writing rather than just thinking about writing, and having something — a news event or a simple prompt — to write about.

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A Feast for the Senses: Using Sensory Details in Descriptive Writing

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One of the hardest parts of writing is perfecting the art of description. Adding vivid descriptions, or what writers call sensory details, is what brings the reader’s experience of a scene, character, or feeling to life within a piece of writing. But it’s certainly not an easy skill to master.

While students love reading pieces that contain these engaging descriptions, they often have a hard time creating and adding them in their own writing. In this blog post, we’ve highlighted a few ways to help you explain what sensory details are and get your students inspired to write more meaningful descriptions.

What Are Sensory Details?

Sensory details are descriptive words used within a piece of writing to evoke a mental image and an emotion and/or sensation for the reader. When a writer uses rich, descriptive language that appeals to the reader’s five senses, it transports them into the scene. Not only does this help the reader become more engaged with the text, but it also increases their comprehension.

Think of it this way: have you ever listened to someone give a dull, monotonous presentation or speech? It was pretty hard to pay attention, right? At some point as they droned on, your eyes likely glazed over and your mind began to wander. Unfortunately, you probably didn’t take much—if anything—away from the presentation. You may not even remember what it was about!

In the same sense, if you read something that’s vague and boring, what happens? You probably either:

A: Get confused and frustrated. B: Start daydreaming as you read. C: Stop reading it entirely.

Writers who don’t include good descriptive words or imagery risk losing their readers because they can’t get a clear understanding of the characters, setting, or plot. So, when teaching your students descriptive writing , be sure to have them practice using vivid language and sensory details that will grasp their reader’s attention.

Examples of Sensory Details

To give you a better idea of how sensory details add interest, emotion, and clarity to a piece of writing, let’s compare a few sentences that use vague descriptions versus vivid ones.

Sentence 1 : The ice cream was very cold. (vague)
Sentence 2 : The green, minty ice cream was so cold, I felt a stabbing pain behind my right eye. (vivid)

The second sentence does a much better job of engaging the reader’s senses. The readers might almost be able to taste and smell the mint ice cream or feel an excruciating brain freeze. This helps them relate to what the character is going through.

Sentence 3 : My dog was scared of the storm. (vague)
Sentence 4 : My 120-pound Rottweiler trembled anxiously in the corner as the lightning crashed and thunder rumbled outside. (vivid)

While the description in the third sentence does communicate a point clearly, it still leaves the reader with questions. What kind of dog? What kind of storm? The details provided in the fourth sentence allow the reader to visualize the scene much better. It also elicits more of an emotional response as you picture a massive, seemingly fearless dog cowering in a corner. This is why using sensory details makes such a big difference in writing.

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4 Steps to Teach Students to Use Sensory Details

Want your student to use better descriptions and sensory language in their writing? Try these four steps to help them understand how to come up with strong sensory details.

1) Discuss the Five Senses

Our five senses help us experience the world around us. With your students, work through the following steps to develop words and descriptions using their five senses as a starting point.

Talk about sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.
Collect words from your students that fall within each category. They will likely suggest that something can look pretty or ugly, sound loud or quiet , feel hard or soft , smell good or bad , taste yummy or gross .
This is a great way to help them identify weak, unimaginative descriptions.

Talk about why it’s difficult to come up with sensory words in this manner. As you share your story, help them grasp the idea that writing with your senses means taking time to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste what you’re trying to write about.

2) Experience the Five Senses

This is where the lesson gets fun. Gather some objects your students can experience with each of their senses, such as:

Sweet, salty, sour, or bitter foods for them to taste
Various textured objects that are interesting to touch
Noise-making items to listen to
Fragrant or aromatic things to smell
Objects that are colorful and interesting to look at

For example, let’s say you gathered some slime, a fork, and a rock to help them experience their sense of touch. Let children take turns closing their eyes and feeling an item. Remind them to focus only on the sense of touch.

Next, hide a bell, rattle, squeaky toy, or other noise-making items in a box or bag. Have students close their eyes as you produce one of the sounds. Then, make a list together of specific words to describe it. Try this again with the other noise-making objects.

Now that you’ve experimented with different senses of touch and sound, repeat this exercise to explore more senses.

3) Pull Out the Thesaurus

A thesaurus is a writer’s best friend. Not only can this tool help your students find synonyms for repeated words and phrases that keep cropping up in their writing, it can also help them find robust words to use as sensory details.

Teach your students (or review) how to use the thesaurus . Then, ask them to look over their list of descriptive words from Step 2 and find a powerful synonym for each one. For example, perhaps they’d replace the word “rough” with “jagged,” “ringing” with “tinkling,” and “sour” with “tart.”

Once your students are done finding new words in the thesaurus, have them compare their list with the one they made at the very beginning (Step 1). They will likely agree that the new words describe the way an object looks, feels, smells, tastes, and sounds much better than the original ones, which will ultimately help their reader form a mental picture.

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4) Practice Using Sensory Details

Now that your students have a collection of engaging words to draw from, invite them to create a poem or narrative containing sensory details! If you want to ease them into the writing process, consider starting with a descriptive writing prompt instead. Here are some ideas you can use:

Descriptive Writing Prompts for Elementary Schoolers

Do you have a younger student? Try out these prompts to get them started with sensory details!

Main Street, USA: Your pen pal and her parents are thinking of moving to your hometown. Describe your town or city, especially the sights and scenery it offers to curious visitors.
Surfing and Snowflakes: Would you rather spend a day catching waves by the beach or throwing snowballs at your best friend? Describe your favorite season, including the activities that make it so appealing to you.
Pet Detective: Do you have a pet dog, cat, lizard, hamster, or turtle? Describe what it looks like. How does it behave? Does it make any sounds? Does it have a smell? Use as many sensory details as you can. If you don’t have a pet, write about another animal you’re familiar with.

Descriptive Writing Prompts for Middle Schoolers

Choose from these engaging prompts to get your middle school student excited to write!

Happy Birthday: Birthdays are celebrated in many different ways. Describe birthday festivities in your house, including the food, gifts, and favorite family traditions.
Welcome to the 22nd Century: Describe a car or house in the future. Which familiar items are missing? What new technology has developed, and how does it contribute to our well-being, comfort, or convenience?
Dare to be Different: Think of the most unusual person you have known: their personality, physical qualities, etc. Then, try to capture this amazing person on paper.

Descriptive Writing Prompts for High Schoolers

Does your teenage student need some extra help with sensory details? Here are a few simple prompts for them to practice.

Places and Spaces: Where’s the place that you feel most at ease? Is it in your bedroom? Sitting on a dock by the water? Under a certain tree at the park? In your grandma’s kitchen? Put yourself there in your mind (or even go there if you can) and describe what it’s like.
Making Memories: Some of the best memories are made when families plan a special day together. Describe a family vacation or outing that was especially memorable for you. Where did you go? What did you do? What was it like?
Inside Your Mind: Do you remember a certain dream or nightmare you had? It likely involved some strange or silly things. Describe everything you recall from the dream so the reader feels like they were in it with you.

Using sensory details is an incredibly important skill for students to master in order to make their writing more interesting and understandable. Hopefully, this blog post will leave you with some good takeaways to help your student enhance their descriptive writing.

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Incorporating the Five Senses in Your Writing

If you want to engage a reader into your written world, you must incorporate sensory data, so their imaginations will ignite. Sense memory is one of the quickest ways to transport an audience into your novel. When describing the plate of Mexican food above, I could say that it looked good…but what does “good” look like? “The enchiladas were covered with melted cheese and spicy ranchero sauce,” immediately transports you south of the border.

Let’s go further, using all five senses: sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.

The combo plate included four enchiladas and a taco.

The combination enchilada plate at Carmelita’s was generous enough to feed four hungry lumberjacks .

The food smelled good.

As the server set the fragrant offering before me, the chile relleno’s spicy aroma tickled my nose.

I heard music playing.

The mariachi band’s salsa tune was accented by the syncopated rhythm of the electronic cash register.

I ate my dinner.

My mouth discovered the creamy center of the queso blanco and spinach enchilada, while a hint of nutmeg in the béchamel sauce intrigued my tongue.

I grabbed my plate.

The stoneware platter was sizzling hot; I placed my blistered finger on the icy margarita glass.

Adding sensory details to a piece of prose imparts multidimensional imagery that readers crave. Jessica Bell, author of Show & Tell in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Transitions from Telling to Showing, says that her writing changed when she added concreteness. “My writing had become cinematic, it had movement, my characters were three dimensional and I didn’t even have to mention their personality traits because I was showing them. But above all, my writing evoked emotion.”

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”– Anton Chekhov

Sources: WordServe Water Cooler, WritersDigest.com, novel-writing-help.com, writingcenterunderground.wordpress.com.

5 thoughts on “ Incorporating the Five Senses in Your Writing ”

Awesome points and excellent examples!

Thanks, Sam! Of course, I use food for examples. It comes naturally!

Okay, I’m hungry now! You are right, it’s the use of all those sensory details that really pull us into a good story!

Thanks for the comment, OneMommy! I love the richness that sensory detail imparts.

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Senses and Sensibility: Experiencing the World Around Us

Ten investigators awarded pilot funding for projects focused on the senses..

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Eating a delicious meal, listening to music, watching a movie, or performing everyday activities such as walking or engaging in conversation with co-workers – all these activities rely on the mechanisms of our senses. Our senses allow us to connect to the world around us, perceive our environment, and interact with other people. There are five senses commonly understood–sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell–as well as two others, vestibular and proprioception.

To advance research in this area, we opened a funding opportunity in October 2021 , soliciting proposals from Harvard University-affiliated researchers. Investigators were invited to submit projects related to any aspect of sensory perception or the human sensory system, including projects focused on the vestibular, proprioception, and other sensory systems. Each of the 10 awarded projects received $50,000 for one year.

Any disruption of our senses can limit our interactions with the world around us or make it harder to perform certain activities. For example, hearing loss can make it more difficult to follow conversations and a reduction in vision may make driving impossible, while a balance disorder can limit safe movement. Proprioception is the internal sense of body position; it monitors where our bodies are in space so that we can move our hands or feet without having to observe them. The vestibular system is responsible for maintaining our sense of balance and monitoring the sensation of orientation and acceleration of our heads in any direction.

Nearly 50 applications were received, covering topic areas ranging from diagnosing dizziness using balance biomarkers to using an all-in-one diagnostic test to identify the bacteria which causes an eye infection that can lead to uveitis, to detection of hidden hearing loss using advanced diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

“Through this pilot funding from Harvard Catalyst, we can now compare this new intervention to a placebo, the next necessary step towards establishing mirror therapy as a treatment option for people who suffer from tinnitus.”

Tinnitus is a health condition addressed in one project, which affects one in 10 adults. Responding to the need for safe, accessible, and affordable therapies, Clas Linnman, PhD , assistant professor at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, will be using his pilot funding to investigate the use of an auditory mirror therapy as a treatment. Linnman’s study concept borrows from the treatment of phantom limb pain in amputees which uses mirror box therapy. In this therapy, a mirror gives the visual illusion of an intact limb to amputees, which allows the brain to reinterpret the lack of sensory nerve signals.

Building on this concept, a pair of headphones switch the communication of left and right sounds, so sounds from the left are heard as if they are on the right, and vice versa. The effect is that one must rely completely on vision rather than on sound to localize where the sound is coming from.

“Through this pilot funding from Harvard Catalyst, we can now compare this new intervention to a placebo, the next necessary step towards establishing mirror therapy as a treatment option for people who suffer from tinnitus,” said Linnman.

If successful, this therapy could become a treatment option that is non-invasive and safe, with the possibility of providing relief to the many adults who suffer from this condition.

Another project focuses on cochlear hair cells, which are the sensory cells that detect sound. One of the most common causes of permanent hearing loss is the irreversible damage and loss of these inner ear cells. Innovative strategies are needed to regenerate these cells and recover hearing. Zheng-Yi Chen, MD , associate professor at Massachusetts Eye and Ear (MEE), recently discovered that the coactivation of two genes, Myc and Notch1, with a transcription factor called ATOH1, was enough to regenerate hair cells and reprogram the cochlea in adult transgenic mice.

“We believe we are at the cusp of using regeneration as future treatment for hearing loss without any drug therapy,” said Chen. “This funding allows us to optimize our drug-like approach for inner ear hair cell regeneration, providing us a critical step towards moving this discovery to clinical application.”

Chen and his team will next apply a cocktail of drug-like molecules (e.g., siRNA) to induce hair cell regeneration in the mouse’s damaged inner ear and examine the extent to which hearing can be restored using these cells.

Another awarded project focuses on the sudden loss of taste and smell, one of the most puzzling and unique symptoms of COVID-19, which 68% of people who have had COVID-19 experienced, as reported by observational studies. This loss of taste and smell is transient for most people who have contracted the virus. Approximately 45% of patients go on to partially recover their sense of taste and smell. However, approximately 4% of patients who had COVID-19 experience loss or disruption of taste and smell for up to six months after recovery.

“This funding allows us to optimize our drug-like approach for inner ear hair cell regeneration, providing us a critical step towards moving this discovery to clinical application.”

These data led Lora Bankova, MD , assistant professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to the possibility that severe damage to nasal epithelial cells could be responsible for the long-lasting loss of smell in COVID-19 patients.

“When we launched our study, our plan was to conduct a small sample of fewer than 30 patients,” said Bankova. “Unexpectedly, the interest was so high that we recruited and collected samples from more than 50 patients in just two months. In addition, we created a registry to collect longitudinal clinical information so we can understand the progression of this syndrome.”

Combing through this registry of patients with post-COVID smell and taste disruption, Bankova and her team discovered that in 52% of these subjects, nasal dryness was associated with a loss of smell. The funding will allow the team to perform shotgun proteomics and high throughput lipidomics to deepen their understanding of the changes in the composition of the nasal lining fluid in people who have persistently disturbed smell and taste following COVID.

“The integrated analysis of protein, lipid mediator, and transcriptional analysis will allow the team to build a comprehensive hypothesis around why some people do not recover their sense of smell and taste following the virus,” she said.

A unique aspect of this pilot funding opportunity was the addition of a community engagement studio for each project. Each principal investigator presented their projects to a panel of local community leaders and patient advocates. The collaborative nature of the studios allowed the principal investigators to gain valuable feedback on the recruitment of patients and other best practices for disseminating the project’s outcome.

As these innovative projects demonstrate, support for early findings can help support advanced research into all aspects of the sensory systems. This important work is necessary for us to gain insight into the many ways we as humans connect to and enrich our environment using all our senses.

In addition to the above projects, seven other principal investigators were funded:

James Naples, MD , Assistant Professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)
Divya Chari, MD, Lecturer at MEE
Paulo Bispo, PhD, Assistant Professor at MEE
Lana Vasung, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)
Lucy Shen, MD, Associate Professor at MEE
Katherine Reinshagen, MD, Assistant Professor at MEE
Samuel Mathias, PhD, Instructor at BCH

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How to Use All 5 Senses When You Travel

We call it sightseeing, of course. Emphasis on sight . And we take lots of photographs so that we can look at them again later. But perhaps we’re missing out on experiencing our travels fully if we don’t make an effort to involve the rest of our senses, too. Here are my tips for how to do this.

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Tasting Your Travels

After seeing, tasting is the next most obvious sense to use on your travels. But many of us, including me, don’t always do this very well. In fact, I think using your sense of taste to experience a new culture is a skill you really have to practice.

As well as getting yourself accustomed to tastes that you don’t usually find at home, for example, being able to eat really spicy food in Korea or strangely textured raw seafood in Japan, you should do some research before you hit the road. The real local foods are sometimes hard for travelers to find, because we don’t know what to ask for.

Surf the web to find examples of typical local foods, and pay special attention to dishes that might belong to just one particular city or region. If you note down some names you’ll have a good chance of being able to eat authentically by asking around in restaurants once you arrive. Too often I’ve returned from a trip somewhere, only to have someone ask me if I’d tried some unusual meal I’d never heard of. Arm yourself with information before you go.

And a side note: tasting might not only involve food. My niece and nephew from California visited Australia last summer, and reported that the water in the Indian Ocean tastes significantly more salty than their Pacific Ocean water.

A Sense of Touch on Your Trip

Using the sense of touch is really a reflex, but we don’t often think it over later. Walk through a fabric stall at a market or even a supermarket and you’ll probably notice yourself reaching out to feel the texture of an object in front of you. Make this a more intentional practice and start comparing and contrasting what you feel.

All kinds of objects on your travels have interesting feels and textures to them, and you often don’t have to go far out of your way to find them. Even the different textures of banknotes across the world — try Australia’s slippery plastic notes, for a start — make for interesting observations. If you’re a journal writer , these are the vivid memories that will make a destination come alive for you again when you re-read your journal entries.

In my case, I’m insatiably curious about touching beach sand. Blindfold me and drop handfuls of sand from various beaches around the world through my fingers and I might even be able to identify a fair few of them.

Have A Nose For Your Journey, From The Start

There are, let’s be perfectly honest, destinations that have a really distinct smell from your homeland. For me, Vietnam was the first place I visited that completely overwhelmed my sense of smell. That first evening in Ho Chi Minh City, I wandered the streets trying to identify individual smells from the cacophony invading my nose.

Somehow, the distressing part was that after three or four days, I couldn’t smell anything unusual anymore. My senses had become accustomed to the various scents of a Vietnamese city, and it was all every day again. After returning from a day trip out into the countryside, I could get a bit more of an impression of the smells of the city, but it was never the same as when I’d first arrived. I’m guessing it’s the same for most of us, so make a big effort when you first arrive in a new place to identify and appreciate the smells around you.

You can also indulge your sense of smell in particularly fragrant places — smell the flowers in the local botanical gardens, or take a sniff of a dozen different incense sticks at a market stall. Smells are something you simply can’t take home with you, so savor them while you can.

Listening to Your Destination

The first way to listen to your destination is to take off your iPod. I’m guilty of this in my hometown, and on the odd day my battery’s flat I’m always surprised by the interesting conversation snippets I overhear, or the new languages of tourists that I hear around me. Simply hearing the every day noises of your destination can give you all kinds of information. You can learn a few words of the language, understand how people’s intonation reflects their moods, or be amused by the cute bell sound made when someone wants to stop the bus.

You can go one step further and record interesting sounds on your travels, too. You might pick some up on your video recorder, or better take some kind of MP3 recorder, and listen out for particular, typical noises that you can take home as souvenirs. In Japan, for example, I was obsessed with recording the various tunes that traffic lights would sing when it was time for pedestrians to cross.

Similarly, if you meet some friendly locals, get them to record a message for you. Ask them some questions about their homeland, or get them to record a phrase in their own language.

Seeing Better: More Than Just Sightseeing

My sense of sight while traveling improved most after I met the man who’s now my husband. I think that’s because he’s an artist, and taught me to look at things from new angles and to see objects in other ways. As he rightly explained, I’m a “words person” and I could definitely tell you what the captions at the museum said or what the signs on the bus stop were telling us, but ask me the color or shape and I’d be lost.

Practice seeing more than you usually see. Take time to really look at a church, street or hostel room, and imagine how you would describe it on the phone to someone back home, someone who can’t see any of what you’re seeing. I was amazed at all the details I’d been missing all these years.

So next time you’re traveling, remember that it’s not just about sightseeing. We’ve got five senses to use and they can make all of our trips more memorable. And any more tips on making the most of all the senses while we travel are very welcome.

Excellent article, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It reminded me to read again one of my favourite books, Alain de Boton book, The Philosophy of Travel.

Wow, thanks Angela, that’s a great compliment. The Philosophy of Travel is a favourite of mine too, that I keep meaning to read again.

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Very cool article! I’ve always done some of these things intuitively, but it’s great to quantify experiences and try to recreate the process over and over again. Thanks for the article!

Right on – thanks for your kind words, Johnathan!

Great article! One of the things I remember most from my travels are the sounds, especially the birds in Australia; they sound so different from the twitterings of birds in the US.

Sensory Writing: Engaging All Five Senses for Immersive Storytelling

How to captivate readers with a multi-sensory experience.

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Sensory writing, at its core, is the art of evoking the five senses — sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell — to pull readers into a story. It’s not just about painting a vivid picture; it’s about making readers feel as if they’re inside the narrative, experiencing the world you’ve created firsthand. The power of sensory writing lies in its ability to make stories come alive, transforming mere words on a page into a dynamic, immersive experience.

Imagine walking into a room. Without sensory details, it’s just four walls. But add the soft glow of candlelight, the distant hum of a jazz song, the gentle caress of velvet curtains, the rich aroma of brewing coffee, and the slight tang of lemon in the air, and suddenly, the room pulses with life and emotion. Such is the difference between simply telling a story and letting your readers live it. Through sensory writing, we bridge the gap between imagination and reality, crafting tales that resonate deeply with every reader’s sensory…

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Sensory Details Examples And Language In Writing

Sensory language is one of the most powerful tools in a writer’s toolbox. It can be used to create vivid and memorable images in the reader’s mind, and help them feel what it is like to experience an event or object.

In this guide, we take an in-depth look at sensory details, examples of sensory language, and useful, easy-to-understand tips that you can implement in your writing today.

Let’s dive in.

What Is Sensory Language In Writing?

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The five senses are sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Sensory language can be used to describe an object or person in a way that appeals to one or more of these senses. For example: “The smell of freshly cut grass filled her nostrils.”

So, what is sensory language in writing ?

The use of sensory language in writing allows writers to create a more vivid and immersive experience for their readers. It also helps writers evoke an emotional response from their readers by describing things that they can see, touch, taste, smell or hear.

It’s a way of describing something in detail to make it more vivid for the reader. It can be used to describe anything from the sound of an ice cream truck’s jingle to the smell of freshly baked bread, or even the feeling of sitting on a cotton ball.

So, what is it about sensory language that makes it so effective? Let’s take a look at some reasons:

It makes the writing more engaging and evocative – Sensory language helps to create vivid and detailed images in the reader’s mind, which can make the writing more interesting and captivating.
It helps to create a sense of immersion – By appealing to the five senses, sensory language helps to immerse the reader in the scene or setting, making it feel more real and tangible.
It can add emotional depth – Sensory language can be used to create a specific mood or atmosphere and to convey the emotions of the characters . For example, describing the smell of a freshly baked pie can evoke feelings of comfort and nostalgia.
It can make the writing more descriptive and precise – Sensory language allows the writer to describe things in a way that is more specific and accurate, which can make the writing more effective and powerful.
It can be used to add metaphor and symbolism – Sensory language can be used to create metaphorical and symbolic connections between the world of the story and the reader’s own experiences, making the writing more meaningful and impactful.

In short, sensory language is a powerful tool that can help writers to create more vivid, immersive, and emotionally resonant writing. It makes the writing more interesting, engaging, and memorable for the readers, allowing them to get lost in the story and connect with the characters and the setting.

For many writers, the toughest part is knowing when to use a sensory description. As you may have heard, using too many adjectives and adverbs can slow down the flow of the writing. So that leaves writers conscious about when to invest words in describing scenes.

However, there are certain points in a story that warrants a sensory description. For example:

When describing a character – using sensory descriptions when describing characters can elevate the impression they give. For instance, saying someone looked homeless is quite bland in comparison to describing how they smell, or how the coarseness of their hands.
Describing scenes – this is the most important moment to introduce some sensory description. For instance, if you’re trying to describe a battle scene in a fantasy book, in order to draw readers deeper into that scene, you’re going to have to show them not just how the battlefield looks, but the cries of pain and terror. The smells of the fearful, the dying, the dead. The sensation of hacking another person down with a sword or axe. There are so many details you can include, and all of them take your story to the next level.
When linking in memories – the five senses often provoke memories. A smell, for instance, can transport us back years to a particular moment when we first experienced that smell.

These are definitely the key points in a story to introduce some sensory details in your writing, but be aware that it’s not just limited to these instances.

Sensory language is a type of descriptive writing that appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. Here are some examples of sensory language for each sense:

Sight : “The sun was a fiery orb, casting a warm golden glow on the fields.”
Sound : “The symphony of birdsong filled the air, a melodic harmony of tweets and trills.”
Touch : “The cool marble floor numbed her feet and sent shivers up her spine as she walked.”
Taste : “The tartness of the lemonade made her pucker, while the sweetness of the sugar balanced it out.”
Smell : “The pungent aroma of garlic and onions wafted from the kitchen, making her mouth water.”

These examples show how sensory language can help create vivid and detailed images in the reader’s mind, making the writing more engaging and evocative. And it’s not limited to only fiction or descriptive writing, it can be used in any type of writing to add more depth and richness to the text.

More Examples Of Sensory Language

We know now the importance of using sensory language—it has the ability to elevate your writing to new levels by immersing readers deeper into the tale by creating vivid images in their minds.

To help better your understanding, let’s take a look at some examples of how writers can achieve this on a more practical level—by using sensory words.

Textures are a very interesting thing to describe when writing stories, but they can be tricky to do. They’re not something that we instantly go toward, but they’re important. For example, if you like watching true crime documentaries, you may see victims of attacks talk about the coarseness of their attacker’s hands, for example.

Here are some sensory words to help you describe textures:

Sound is go-to tool when describing things using the 5 senses in writing. Like the other senses, sounds can trigger memories. They can warn us of incoming danger, or they can bring joy to our hearts (like when I’m listening to The Allman Brothers).

Using vivid sensory words can help you elevate your descriptions when it comes to your writing. Here are some examples:

Taste is a sense that doesn’t get used too often in writing. However, it’s perhaps one of most significant and powerful of all the 5 senses.

We rely on this sense as a source of pleasure from the food and drinks we consume. And we can attach memories and meanings to these tastes. These memories can be quite vivid too.

For example, I still cannot drink vodka and ginger ale after consuming way too much in a nightclub in my university years. I threw up violently at the end of the night and now even the slightest similarity in taste has me baulking.

Have you ever experienced anything like this too? Jot down those memories and use them as a reference for your character creation.

To help you along, here’s a bunch of examples of sensory language and words you can use to help describe taste:

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Let’s take a look at some sensory language examples for describing smells.

It’s important to bear in mind that the scents we whiff c an trigger both emotions and memories . Sometimes we can recall vivid memories when we smell something. For example, your mother’s famous home cooking.

When it comes to writing with the 5 senses, including some of these adjectives or emotions can really jazz up your story.

Here are some examples of words that describe smells:

And here are some synonyms to help you vary up your word usage and to save using the word “smell” over and over:

Here’s a cracking little infographic packed with sensory words:

Sensory Details: Examples To Elevate Your Writing

So we’ve explored sensory language and considered myriad examples. Now I want to dive deeper and look at some sensory details examples that you can use to take the word describe above and weave them into rich and vivid sentences.

Below, you can find 50 examples of sensory details, ten for each sense. Notice how use of the sensory detail draws you deeper into the scene. And you can see here just how simple it is.

The golden sunlight filtered through the dense canopy of leaves.
The crystal-clear water sparkled under the midday sun.
The vibrant red roses stood out against the lush green garden.
The mist hung low over the quiet, cobblestone streets.
The flickering candle cast dancing shadows on the wall.
The mountain peaks were dusted with a fresh layer of snow.
The rusty, abandoned car was covered in creeping vines.
The bustling marketplace was a kaleidoscope of colors and movement.
The storm clouds gathered, darkening the horizon ominously.
The stained glass windows glowed with rich, vivid hues.
The leaves rustled gently in the autumn breeze.
The distant rumble of thunder signaled an approaching storm.
The melodic chirping of birds greeted the dawn.
The waves crashed rhythmically against the rocky shore.
The soft whisper of the wind carried a hint of salt from the sea.
The crackling fire provided a comforting backdrop to the quiet evening.
The church bells rang out, echoing through the village.
The mournful howl of a wolf pierced the stillness of the night.
The rhythmic ticking of the clock filled the silent room.
The lively chatter of a crowded café created a cheerful ambiance.
The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted through the air.
The scent of pine needles filled the forest after the rain.
The fragrant blossoms of the gardenia bush perfumed the evening air.
The sharp tang of lemon zest invigorated the senses.
The musty smell of old books lingered in the library.
The earthy scent of damp soil rose up after the summer rain.
The smoky aroma of barbecue drifted from the backyard.
The pungent odor of garlic and onions sizzling in the pan was mouth-watering.
The delicate fragrance of lavender provided a calming effect.
The acrid smell of burning rubber was overpowering.
The tartness of the lemonade made my mouth pucker.
The rich, creamy chocolate melted on my tongue.
The salty crunch of the potato chips was addictive.
The sweet, juicy burst of fresh strawberries was delightful.
The spicy heat of the chili left a lingering warmth.
The bitter aftertaste of the strong coffee was unmistakable.
The buttery smoothness of the avocado was heavenly.
The tangy zest of the lime added a refreshing twist.
The savory richness of the beef stew was comforting.
The subtle sweetness of the honey balanced the flavor perfectly.
The cool, smooth surface of the marble countertop felt luxurious.
The rough bark of the old oak tree was textured with deep grooves.
The soft, fluffy fur of the kitten was soothing to stroke.
The prickly sensation of the cactus needles warned me to be careful.
The warm, gentle breeze caressed my skin.
The icy chill of the snow made my fingers tingle.
The gritty texture of the sandpaper was harsh against my palm.
The silky fabric of the dress flowed gracefully.
The clammy dampness of the cave walls was uncomfortable.
The firm handshake conveyed confidence and assurance.

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These sensory details can help create vivid and immersive descriptions, making the reader feel more engaged with the writing.

Here are some tips for using language to create a sensory experience:

Use specific and concrete words – Instead of using abstract or general words, try to use specific and concrete words that appeal to the five senses. This will help to create a more detailed and vivid image in the reader’s mind.
Try to show instead of tell – Instead of telling the reader how something looks, sounds, feels, tastes, or smells, try to show it to them through descriptive language. This will help to create a more immersive and realistic sensory experience.
Vary your sensory language – Use a mix of sensory language to appeal to different senses and create a more well-rounded sensory experience.
Be selective – Use sensory language when it adds to the scene or story. Don’t overuse it as it can become overwhelming and lose its effect.
Use imagery and metaphor – Use imagery and metaphors to create symbolic and metaphorical connections between the sensory details in the story and the reader’s own experiences.
Practice and experiment – Writing with sensory language is a skill that can be developed with practice, so don’t be afraid to experiment with different words and phrases to find what works best for your writing.
Read and study other writers – Reading widely, and studying the work of experienced writers who use sensory language effectively can be a great way to learn and develop your own skills.

Hopefully, these tips and the rest in this guide will help to use language to create a more immersive and memorable sensory experience for your readers and make your writing more engaging and impactful.

Below, you can find more guides and resources on writing prose:

Learn all about prose and writing here
Or visit here to learn about foreshadowing conflict
Or head here to learn how to build suspense
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Travelling plays an important role in our lives as it enriches our experience. In this lesson, you will learn to write essays in three different sets on the importance of libraries. It will help you in articulating your thoughts in the upcoming exams.

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We travel to get away from the monotony of our daily lives. It’s a refreshing diversion from the monotony of everyday life. It allows our minds to relax and gives our inner child the opportunity to play. Some trip memories are nostalgic and melancholy, while others are daring and exhilarating. A trip to the graveyard, the poet’s corner in London, or one’s ancestral house, for example, is a voyage to nostalgia.

These travels allow them to relive memories and treasure golden memories from a bygone era. People who go on these journeys are frequently depressed and artistically inclined. Travelling instils a sense of adventure and encourages us to make the most of every opportunity. Some people prefer to travel in groups, whereas others prefer to travel alone.

Trips to amusement parks with massive roller coasters or a deeply wooded forest could be exciting. It’s important to remember that Columbus discovered America due to his travels. The journey becomes much more memorable when things don’t go as planned. For example, if a car tyre blows out on the highway and it begins to rain heavily, the trip will turn into an adventure, even though it was not intended to be such. A visit to a museum or a gothic structure, on the other hand, is sure to be exciting.

We travel to get a break from the mundane and robust lifestyle. It is a welcome change from the monotonous routine existence. It helps our minds rest and gives the inner child within us to have a good time.

Not all travelling experiences are adventurous and exciting, and some are nostalgic and melancholic. For instance, a trip to the cemetery or the poet’s corner in London or one’s ancestral home will be a nostalgia trip. Such trips help them re-live the moments and cherish the golden memories of bygone times. People who undertake such trips are often melancholic and have an artistic sensibility.

Travelling experiences bring enthusiasm and teach us to make the best of every moment. While some enjoy travelling in groups, some people love to travel solo. Adventurous trips could be to amusement parks with giant roller coasters or a deep, dense forest. One must not forget that travelling led Columbus to discover America. When things don’t go as planned, the trip becomes more memorable. For instance, if the car tyre gets punctured on the highway and starts raining heavily, the trip, even if not intended to be adventurous, shall become one. A trip to a museum or gothic architecture shall be thrilling.

Last Christmas, my trip to Goa with my friends was an enriching one. The golden sun-soaked beaches offered a refuge from the humdrum city life of Kolkata. The cool breeze, the rising and setting sun, and the chilly wind all transported me to heaven. It was paradisal and divine. The cuisine was exquisite. The Portuguese culture and the museums offer various historical insights.

Although it was the peak season and most crowded places, people were civilised and cultured. The melodious music was in the air in every nook and corner, and the happy vibes were contagious. I danced, sang, played and had a great time. I tried sky diving, and it was a thrilling experience.

Besides fun and frolic, I found the independent spirit of people commendable. We spent three days in North Goa and two days in South Goa. We stayed at a guest house as most hotels were expensive and very occupied. We booked scooters to travel far and near. We also went on the cruise for the casino night.

My favourite spot was Thalassa, where we enjoyed the spectacular belly dance performance by males and females. We spent Christmas at Curlies witnessing the waxing moon at midnight. The lap of nature enriches one travelling experience and soothes their soul. The chirping of birds, the sound of the waterfall, the waves of a beach or the snow-covered mountain uplifts the traveller’s spirit.

One must not restrict oneself to a specific type of travelling experience. Life, after all, is a long journey that offers us different durations of vacations to make us laugh and learn at the same time. As Francis Bacon puts it, “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education, in the elder, a part of the experience.”

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We know the five senses the human body uses to receive information – sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. But how can you incorporate each into a story, helping bring your writing alive?

Probably the easiest sense to write about. The writer will highlight what the character sees, whether the character is walking down the street or when inside a building. It’s OK to draw attention to the cracks in the pavement. But it might be significant to show how the cracks mirror the (fractured) paths in the character’s life.

I love the sound of rain. I find it strangely calming – especially if I don’t have to go outside. As a sense, sound can work particularly well in setting a scene. It will help create an ambience as to what unfolds. If your character is lost in a forest, the slightest sound might make them on edge. Whereas a walk on the beach, with the sound of the waves lapping against the shore, will create an altogether different mood.

This is an easier sense to write than you think. Back to the aforementioned beach, what smells do you think will permeate the air? Chances are it’s the smell of the saltwater and the seaweed lining the shore. We can all recall the smell of certain things in life, whether it’s a good or unpleasant experience. When writing about different smells, the writer is simply recounting them on the page.

The same applies to taste. I love the taste of strawberry jam, but I wouldn’t thank you for a drink with ginger in it. So, bringing taste to life on the page is very much character dependent – how the taste, real or imaginary, gives a greater understanding to a character’s feelings.

How do characters react when they touch something, or when someone touches them? Working in an office, paper cuts are quite common – but they can certainly sting. Again, it comes back to feelings. If your character is having a bad day, something as “trivial” as a paper cut might intensify the situation. Call me an old fool, but there is nothing more romantic than holding hands with your loved one – the reassurance it can give you. And when it’s not there – the longing for its return.

The next time you write, let your character’s experiences come to life on the page through use of the five senses.

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We all know the advice given to writers about using our five senses when writing. Engaging senses other than sight in our books brings the setting alive, allows us to see what’s important to our characters, and lets us get to know them through what they notice.

While what we see always seems to be the most important, there’s so much more to our interpretation of the world around us. Smells can trigger memories or cause a visceral reaction. Sounds, such as music, and evoke physical and emotional responses.

We filter the world through our senses, and our characters should do the same. Let’s look at how each sense can be used effectively in our writing.

What we see is important. But don’t mistake description of the character’s surroundings with actual “seeing.”

When a character enters a living room and just describes what they see in terms of the furniture for example—a couch, loveseat, coffee table, and a couple of lamps—that’s very different than what they really see…dust coating the coffee table in a formal living room, telling them that the owner of the home rarely uses this room or that they’ve been away for some time. Faux Egyptian artifacts lining bookshelves, alongside romance novels and Disney memorabilia, may paint a picture of someone with varying tastes, as well as, maybe, a sense of playfulness or a love of nostalgia.

What the character notices visually and what those items tell that character—and the reader—are much more important than just what you’d see on first glance around the room. Be intentional with what your viewpoint characters notice about their surroundings, other characters, the world, etc.

Sound is all around us all the time, but we tune a lot of it out. As with sight, what a character notices audibly tells us a lot about the character. Someone spending their first night in a big city apartment they just moved into is going to feel their senses bombarded with traffic, honking, sirens, etc. Whereas someone who’s lived in the city for years might find all that noise soothing, and if there was sudden silence where they were used to sound, that silence might feel terribly jarring, unsettling, or even ominous.

How a character feels about sound is important too. A character listening to classical music might feel soaring power and strength in the sounds, or they might feel overwhelming sorrow, because the music reminds them of their late father, who played cello for a symphony. A character trying to sleep may be driven crazy by a dripping faucet or a ticking clock…or they may find the repetition calming. As with all senses, it’s not always about character observations. It’s also about the emotions those observations evoke in that character in particular.

Also consider using onomatopoeia—words that describe a sound, like plop, clink, bam, etc.—to describe sound in your writing. Really pay attention to the word, though, to be sure you’ve chosen the best one. For example, footsteps on a wooden floor won’t “clang,” though they might if the person is walking on a suspended steel grate walkway.

What we feel tactilely when we touch something, and what we feel emotionally as we touch it, tells a lot about a character. Touch can be rough, sensual, meaningful. A child might stimulate themselves by stroking a blanket or rubbing a silky tag between their fingertips. A person locked in a dark closet by a bad guy may use their sense of touch to search for something to use to escape. What they feel through their fingertips is all they have to go by, though they may also smell the mustiness of things that have been stored in the closet for years or smell the cedar lining the closet walls.

Historical romance novelists can turn the mere act of characters touching hands—skin to skin—for the first time into an erotic experience, since women were often required to wear gloves whenever outside their homes.

Remember, too, that when one or more senses are blocked, other senses become more heightened. In the dark of the closet, the character can’t see anything. So, the other senses of smell, hearing, and, potentially, touch (unless they are bound in some way), are going to be stronger. Use only what is available to the character at any moment in order to maintain their point of view and really draw readers into the scene with the character.

Think about a lemon. Imagine placing a slice of lemon in your mouth, tasting it. Have your cheeks puckered yet? Have you started salivating? And I didn’t do anything but ask you to imagine it and you had an automatic reaction.

Tastes can bring back memories, from holidays, family gatherings, horrible foods you were forced to eat as a child. Using food in writing can tell us a lot about characters as they are now, and also as they were in the past.

Consider, too, that taste isn’t always about food. When characters kiss, they may taste the chocolate just eaten by their partner, or the cigarette they snuck a short time ago. They may also come across an odor so strong they taste it, like ammonia or vinegar. Look for ways to incorporate taste into your writing from time to time.

Scent is said to be one of the most powerful triggers of emotions and memory. The aroma of baked goods, cinnamon, spices, and other warming scents, like baking bread or cookies, are said to help entice home buyers to buy a home. We remember the smell of a loved one’s perfume or cologne, maybe even years and years after they are gone.

In writing, smell may be an often-neglected sense, but it can be used amazingly effectively, triggering memories for a character (their mother’s patchouli fragrance), alerting them to danger (smelling smoke or chemicals), or to show characterization (a baker might always smell vaguely of yeast or cinnamon).

Remember, too, that smell and taste are closely connected. Ever had a bad cold, to the point your sense of smell disappeared, only to find you also can’t taste anything? Using scent in conjunction with foods your characters come across can create a rich reader experience.

Combining All the Senses

Used in combination, senses can make a reader feel like they are there with the character. But don’t try to use all senses all at once or even every time you describe something. For example, when describing the ocean through a character’s eyes, you probably don’t need to mention taste, because they aren’t likely drinking the salt water. But there is plenty to see, hear, smell, and even touch at the beach.

Choose the strongest sense or senses for that particular character at that particular time. Refrain from writing lists of description by sense for every scene. Instead, choose the most important, or those that relay information the reader needs to know. If there’s not a particular reason for a smell in someone’s living room, then skip it. But if the character walks in the room and smells the overpowering smell of incense, or a dirty cat box, and it’s important, use it, layering it in with other senses to create the setting and tell the reader something about the area the character has just entered.

What your character notices tells us a lot about them. How can you use their senses to show us something unusual about them? Do they always pick out music being played when they go places, even if others don’t notice it? Are they very tactile, running their hands along items, noting the textures of things other characters ignore?

Careful and intentional use of the five senses in your writing can elicit emotions, not only in your characters, but in your readers, as well as ensuring that your readers are firmly entrenched in the scenes, right along with your characters.

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