An article on BookBaby suggests a deceptively simple method for making emotional connections with your readers: using evocative details and engaging their senses in your writing.
“Sensory language is just what it sounds like; it’s the language of our five senses,” the articles states. “When you use sensory language, you describe what you see, feel, hear, taste, and smell.” As Anne Lamott has suggested, writers should look at the world through a one-inch picture frame and describe what they see, drilling down to the smallest detail possible.
The reason this advice is deceptive is because you have to pick the right details. You can’t include everything you see. But that part comes with practice, and practice starts with exercises like this one.
