Creative writing using the five senses

In fact, sight might be the most important sense when it comes to descriptive writing. While a photographer might be able to take in an entire scene at once, a writer has to choose what details to focus on and place them in the most effective order. That means you’ll want to be judicious about what details you choose to highlight.

It’s important to corporate the 5 senses into your writing as best as you can, but there are two reasons why you shouldn’t use all 5 all the time or all at once. 1. We don’t use every single sense together at once For example, as I write this blog post:

By using sensory writing, writers can paint vivid images in readers’ minds. This can be done by exploring the five senses – sound, sight, touch, taste, smell. Perhaps the main one of 5 senses, sight often receives information first and therefore forms our initial judgements.

Simply remove the ‘sense’ verb ‘I see…’. Instead of writing ‘I hear the birds chirping’, you can write ‘Birds were chirping merrily’ by removing the ‘sense’ verb ‘I hear…’. Instead of ‘I smell the delicious aroma of fried chicken’, remove the ‘I smell’ and rewrite it as ‘The aroma of fried chicken filled the air’.