Your readers should taste, smell, feel, and hear your story. 🌺 👂 👃
Why this matters: Sensory details pull readers into the world you’ve created — they turn flat words into living scenes. It brings them to the place or to an event that you've written. ✍️
Example:
The coffee was bitter, thick on my tongue. 👅
Rain tapped against the window like impatient fingers. 🌧️
Prompt: Describe a place that feels like home using all five senses.
Reflect: Which sense do you naturally lean on the most?
Comment your answer to the prompt below and let's see what each other came up with!