I think could be kind of fun, make it feel like I’m holding it too.Ĭhris: What you’re talking about, like the weight of it. Maybe it looks pretty, but I want to know how it feels: like the weight of it, or if it’s scratchy or smooth, any kind of thing like that. Iif your character is touching something that’s important. Touch, I think, is a fascinating way to explore the world. Wes: We’re basically saying, don’t forget that the other senses exist. And I think that would be going a little too far. Right? Sometimes it feels like that’s what we’re suggesting when people emphasize that a lot. I think it’s good to remember, to try to use tactile and smell and sound, but I would think that, you know, use all five senses all the time. Just because based on the practicals of the scene, right? And what you can fit in to each bit of description. Let’s talk about sensory description.Ĭhris: I personally think that as much as it’s good to not just use visuals constantly, sometimes it can go a little too far. I think we can talk about why sentences like that can work, and be good examples of descriptive writing that can set a scene, focus in on details, indicate movement, all of those kinds of things.Ĭhris: Should we talk about sensory description first since we were already? It’s not super descriptive, but it works. “The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger fallowed after.” I mean, one of the more evocative first sentences that gets thrown around is the opening of Stephen King’s gunslinger. And the advice on this is very… I think we can home in on some pretty good principles, but yeah, the novelty, the wordcraft, all of those things, they’re highly variable. Wes: And we’re going to be talking about a few different things today. Depending on how much description you use, obviously, but it makes a difference. However you choose to describe your world will affect how we experience every single moment of your story, so, hey, no pressureĬhris: And having novelty and good wordcraft in the description does make a substantial difference to just how entertaining the story is. And do you know whether or not you’re telling us whether your main character is wearing an elaborate outfit that you described down to every little bit of detail, or you just like to say that she has a perpetually arched eyebrow. Description’s one of the many ways you can hopefully make your story come alive, feel three-dimensional.
I guess we should state for the record that today we are talking about elements of good descriptions. That’s a way better, interesting way to experience your world. And so I think that probably means is that your character should just be sniffing and licking everything. Oren: What I’ve been told is that for evocative description, you should use senses like smell and taste, because those are A, often neglected by new writers and also B, they tend to be tied to memory. I don’t know, like “It tastes like victory:” what does that mean? I don’t know, but I kinda like it. But I like weird turns like that when you are just mixing and matching senses with ideas. I would generally not tend to go for a description like that because inspiration doesn’t have a smell.Ĭhris: Doesn’t really perform its function of being visceral, but it is kind of evocative. I mean, there’s probably fiber somewhere in the cables, connecting everything.Ĭhris: What I want to know, Wes, was if you think using a description, like the smell of inspiration.
Oren, is there fiber involved in audio recording? And then I was mixing metaphors like crazy with… I don’t know if there’s fibers involved in this. So already I’m not describing something that really works very well for the medium. It’s an audio medium, and I wanted to go with smell. It’s true, but I kind of wanted to get the whole point out. It doesn’t matter – either way, it was terrible.Ĭhris: What happens in our intro jokes is what happens, ok? I don’t know if I meant it, or maybe embedded. Oren: I thought you were going to go for, “Oh, can you smell what the Wes is cooking” That was really where I thought this was going. It smells like something’s been embedded into this podcast, ensconced within its every little bit and image and fiber, the elements of good description.Īnd I’ve just violated so many things. Wes: And today, do you smell it? Smells like inspiration. Wes: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Mythcreant podcast.
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