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Using descriptive language inspired by the five senses.
Sight is the most common sensory descriptor. Of the other four (hearing, smell, taste, touch), which is your favorite?
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My dad and I agree that smell can bring back memories - both pleasant and less than pleasant. It can trigger things that bring me to write about those experiences.
A fascinating topic! But why is it limited to these five? What about, the lesser-known but important senses like vestibular (balance), proprioception (body position), and enteroception (internal sensations)?. (WIKI Quote)

I recall reading one of Steph Bee's Irish vampire stories, and the way she described a scene with the Vampire Queen and her champion went a long way deeper than just my eyes and ears!

Besides, most of us want to connect on multiple levels when we write.

Which one is my favorite? It would be the one that resonates between the writer/reader. I'm usually one or the other most days of the week. :)
Smell is suppose to be the most powerful and can evoke memories and instinct at a subconscious level. It's why someone hoping to sell a home is advised to bake bread in the oven or put coffee on. It's a good trick/technique to use when writing because the mention of a smell in the story can very often speak to the reader in a different way.

Cut grass / bonfire smoke / seed weed... all of those will induce a whole picture for the reader, adding layers to the story telling without having to labour over additional words.


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Weirdly, you should ask. A couple of weeks ago I was about half done eating dinner when suddenly I couldn't swallow any food. It went down my throat, but would not enter my stomach. I'm going in tomorrow to find out what went wrong.
Too weird this question would come across me right after the following happened:

I was taking a 20-minute nap as part of my lunch break, about 30 seconds after my alarm woke me up, all of a sudden, a terrible dizzy spell hit me, I am still nauseous from it even 20 minutes later!!!

I felt like I was spinning and doing a jet fighter barrel roll at the same time!

It was very sudden and very violent in effect. I almost lost my lunch!!!
I am a teacher. Would you happen to have a week to listen? Ok, here is one. We had a fire drill yesterday, and I was with a student in the hallway. Well, the alarm went off, and the student went nuts. I've never seen a reaction like that.
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'As' is a handy, versatile little word. It's all too easy to overuse it.
What word or words keep on sneaking into your work, despite your best efforts?
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"Just". It just sums it up.
1.) But 2.) and. The two I have to be careful with.
"I" and "said" are two words I seriously keep an eye on. I can try to write in third person, but my first person keeps coming out.
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Easy fun.
Aerodynamic acrobatics
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Today we will explore the importance of word choice in poetry.
Do you think word choice is more critical than rhythm in poetry?
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In my opinion, both are equally important. If you don't use the correct wording, the poem won't make sense. Rhythm helps with the enhancement of the emotional impact.
Both are important. You need word choice to make some good rhythm (in my opinion).
If a choice of words is selected correctly, the rhyme and rhythm will easily fall into place.

It works if you do it the other way around as well.
Making difficult choices
How do you feel when you need to kill off a character?
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depends on the character sometimes you need to show people some poetic justice. pun intended
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I usually paint my antagonist so terribly bad even the reader wants them dead. However, in my particular story everyone has an immortal soul so even if you kill the body.....
I prevent myself from attaching to my characters so they are easier to kill off.
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Excellent. Very thoughtful.
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I tend to write in threes, so this looks hard.

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When beautiful things are evil
Could something so pretty be dangerous?
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Evil. Evil. Is dangerous. Evil is seductive. If evil were not beautiful, glamorous, seductive, we would not want it, and it would be ineffective.


          . . . could be.
Nature has done this. Take the Flytrap Lilly. It uses pleasing colors to lure in insects interested in it's nectar only for them to be trapped in the digestive juices, unable to get out.
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