{"id":685,"date":"2021-02-10T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T00:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2021-09-06T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:41:31","slug":"your-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/your-senses\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Senses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Using senses in your writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a warmup exercise to try at the start of your next writing session. Start with a list of the five senses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taste<\/li>\n<li>Smell<\/li>\n<li>Touch<\/li>\n<li>Hearing<\/li>\n<li>Sight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take five minutes and write down as many words that you can think of relating to each of the senses<\/p>\n<p>Think of words you could use to describe how a character uses the senses to understand the world. As you write after the exercise, you will discover more ways to use all the senses to describe events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richiebilling.com\/writing-tips\/using-the-5-senses-in-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See Richie Billing&#8217;s site<\/a> for some examples using the five senses and lists of adjectives for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using senses in your writing Here\u2019s a warmup exercise to try at the start of your next writing session. Start with a list of the five senses: Taste Smell Touch Hearing Sight Take five minutes and write down as many words that you can think of relating to each of the senses Think of words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}