Episode 224 - Using all the senses to describe our character.
About this episode
The episode discusses using all five senses to enhance character descriptions and features insights from Janet Burroway and Francine Prose on writing craft.
Some of us may describe our characters using only the sense of sight: what the reader sees when imagining the character. But we can also use sound, smell, taste, and texture to make our characters more memorable. Here are thoughts on how to do so. Also, Janet Burroway on the critical difference between a scene and a summary. And how Francine Prose reads fiction to learn the writing craft. Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course cov...
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