Improve Your Creative Writing: The Senses

Many people cannot grasp the attention of readers. Some reasons might be the topics, grammar, or even just the creativity. In this article I am going to give you some advice for your creative writing. One of my favorite tricks to make my creative writing higher quality is to utilize the senses. In most cases, everyone has senses they can utilize in every day life. Whether one notices it or not, sensations play a huge role in every day life. Imagine how it would be to eat a warm, sauce covered lasagna that would make your mouth water just from the mere sight of it without your sense of taste? Almost pointless, am I right? You eat specific things because they taste good, most of the time at least.

I am going to go through all the senses, one by one, to help give you tips on how to tease a readers senses, and to make them keep reading your creative writing. Enjoy.

Taste
Sweet, sour, bitter, hot, cold, and different textures are all perfect example of how to explain a certain kind of food that relates to taste.

For example: The texture of the sweet cherry jello was in the shape of a cube. The soft edges of the chilly, tasty cube rubbed around my tongue for some time while it dissolved over time, leaving a nice after taste leaving me yearning for more.

Not only can adding sensory motives to your writing make it better in any situation, it is best to add adjectives (ex: chilly) and verbs (ex: rubbed) to your literature as well. This will not only make your writing better, but it helps make your writings longer, and less tedious to fill in blank areas.

If you're talking about an action story, with a tint of violence, you should give the reader insight of the taste of possible blood in the characters mouth from a fight, fall, or something else.

For example: Blood seeped through the small cracks between my teeth, more blood creeping out after each heartbeat. After awhile I got used to the nauseating taste of the thick blood that webbed across my mouth after each gasp of air.

Now, utilize taste to your own advantage, in any way, shape, or form. From the taste of a juicy apple to a gunpowder covered gun barrel, it's up to you.