Writing Tips: Sensory Language

Writing with sensory language brings the reader’s experience of a story's scenes, characters, and actions to life for a more satisfying read.  The five senses of touch, see, smell, hear and taste are used to lift the story off the page and into a reader's imagination.  We will learn to employ these sensory words, phrases, images into our writing projects through direct experiences of such senses. 

Laura Woodward Cavers instructs the class and has ten years experience teaching writing at Darien and New Canaan Libraries.  She holds an MFA in Creative Writing.