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Sense Writing: bring stories to life.

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About Sense Writing: bring stories to life.

SkillShare video 1 Introduction

Video 2 What is Sense Writing

Video 3 Sense writing example

Video 4 How do we process Sensory Information

Video 5 Sensory Perception

Video 6 Imagery Language exercise

Video 7 Show don't Tell

Video 8 The 5 senses

Video 9 Free Writing

Video 10 Glossary

Video 11 Class project

Video 12 Sensory Meditation

Video 13 You did it

What You Will Learn?

  • BRING YOUR STORIES TO LIFE..
  • Sense writing is a great tool to develop your authentic voice, to help you create visceral stories. Your senses can create a unique image, an image that shows how you see, hear, feel, taste and smell this world..
  • In this course I will help you to write from the five senses to transport your readers into the character’s experience and thus bring your stories vividly to life. It is a hands-on course in which you are putting the theory and ideas straight into practice by fun and curious exercises. .
  • At the end of this class you will be able to add sensory language to your stories and writing, engaging your audience by evoking sensation in the reader..
  • Adding sensory language to your writing is a lot easier than you may think, and a lot of fun, it makes a huge difference to your work as people will relate better, even business writing becomes enjoyable. .
  • IN THIS CLASS YOU’LL: .
  • • become aware of the power sensory information has in a story. .
  • • learn and experience why sense writing is so powerful.  .
  • • train your sensory perception.  .
  • • discover how to engage your audience by evoking sensation in the reader.    .
  • • experiment with the show don’t tell technique.   .
  • • explore the free writing technique to grow your confidence.  .
  • • develop your own sense writing style with fun writing prompts.  .
  • • give flesh and color to setting and characters.  .
  • • have fun creating a story putting everything you learned into practice during your class project. .
  • IS THIS FOR ME?.
  • This class is for anyone who is passionate about creative writing and wants to further develop their creative potential. Even if you are new to creative writing, you’ll find these simple and effective techniques easy to use and apply to your work! It’s a pleasure to craft vivid stories that put a smile on your face. So definitely also jump on board if you want to explore sense writing for pleasure and fun. .
  • WHAT YOU’LL NEED.
  • • Computer or if you dig old school a notebook and pen  .
  • • Picture from a (childhood) memory  .
  • • Object from your home to explore and write about  .
  • • Something to taste .
  • • Craft materials, pencils, old magazines, paper, images, anything you want to use to create your sensory moodboard for your class project  .
  • READY? STEADY. Yes, GO!  .
  • Let’s pick up the pen and begin our exploration. .