Sense & Setting

Happy November!

The Sense & Setting exercise is all about details.

Details can be our friends, writers. Use them carefully.

Using concrete and significant details, you can say a lot about a character -

Concrete details appeal to the senses.

i.e. The old coffee was growing a greenish-white mold.

Significant details convey ideas, emotions and/or judgements.

i.e. The putrid, greenish-white mold growing out of the cold coffee cup was becoming unbearable.

For this prompt, write about a setting to reveal a character. Describe the environment using all of the senses - sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste.

I wrote about a female's bedroom. You could write about another space, such as a kitchen, a car, a garage, a basement, etc.

This need not be more than a page - around 250 words.

Good luck!