Sensory Detail: Charging Your Prose Using the Five Senses
Invite your readers into your narrative through shared sensory experience to create a vivid setting they can see, hear, touch, smell, and taste. Learn appropriate application of the senses, what role they play in supporting a scene, and how seamless integration of all five deepens your story.
S.G. Baker is a writer and editor of fiction who penned the Hopeful Wanderer web series, forthcoming as a novel-in-stories. She has authored climate fiction, fantasy, and horror shorts in Freelancer, The Legacy, Little Blue Marble: Warmer Worlds, With Words We Weave: Hope, and Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 2. Her newest short story, “Well Being,” will be released in Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror by Texas Women in 2026. Find out more at summergbaker.com!