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IWW
Practice-W Exercise Archives
Exercise: Involving the senses (v. 4)
These exercises were written
by IWW members
and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its
members.
You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that
you found
them at the Internet Writers Workshop
(http://www.internetwritingwor
kshop.org/).
Prepared by: Rhéal Nadeau
Posted on: January 5, 2003
Reposted on: February 8, 2004
Reposted on: January 9, 2005
Reposted on: February 12, 2006
Reposted
on: November 23, 2008
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Exercise: In 400 words or
less, describe a character
entering a place (familiar or not) and experiencing that location
through all
the
senses. Let us see what effect those sensations have on the character.
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Does
the
character feel welcome or like an intruder? Relaxed or worried? Pleased
or
displeased? (Remember - let the description of the sensations tell us
that!) Do not try
to write a full story, just a
single scene, to ensure
that the focus
remains on involving the senses, not on story-telling.
Any place will do for a setting--a woman
enters her study, a man walks
through the stacks in a library, a bear chases a hunter into a
cave. What counts for this exercise are the character's reactions to
smells or tastes strange or familiar, surfaces
touched,
sounds heard,
visions seen.
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Exercise: In 400 words or
less, describe a character
entering a place (familiar or not) and experiencing that location
through all
the
senses. Let us see what effect those sensations have on the character.
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When critiquing a submission, highlight
good uses of the senses
(especially
senses other than sight and hearing), and point out opportunities to
add
sensory information.
Web site created by
Rhéal Nadeau and
the administrators of the Internet Writing Workshop.
Modified by Greg Gunther.
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