As readers, we rely on writers’ words to paint vivid pictures in our minds. Revered writers tap into the five senses to transfer images from their imaginations to those of their readers. As writers, it is our responsibility to use sensory details to make the invisible VISIBLE, to allow silent pages to SOUND, to enable fingers to FEELÂ something other than flat pages, to cause our TASTEbuds to tingle, and to stimulate the sense of SCENT.
As writers, we are working to craft a movie-making-in-the-mind-type mystery, and attention to detail is key. Whether it the setting or the suspect, the detective or the dilemma, it is our responsibility write in a way that readers relish each word.
This week, during our Wonder-filled Words groups, we took time to examine excerpts from mentor texts, looking for sensory words and phrases. Subsequently, we will seek to examine our own work, identify descriptions that could be revised, and transform the plain into the picturesque.
Linked here is a copy of the multiple sources we will use to reflect and refine.