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How to Use Sensory Imagery in Creative Writing

January 18, 2023 by Katie Musgrave in Language, Image, Impression, Writing

Sensory imagery enlivens writing with descriptive detail and ambiguity, allowing the reader to imagine and infer.

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January 18, 2023 /Katie Musgrave
Sensory, Imagery, Creative, Writing, Telling, Explicit, Narration, Showing, Implicit, Description, Visual, Sight, Auditory, Hearing, Olfactory, Smell, Gustatory, Taste, Tactile, Touch, Kinesthetic, Movement, Body, Action, Position, Feeling, Emotion, Inference, Imagination, Detail, Ambiguity
Language, Image, Impression, Writing

Great Lines: F. Scott Fitzgerald

February 16, 2022 by Katie Musgrave in Craft, Language, Writing

The Beautiful and Damned (1922) prefigures the grand, flowing movements of the Gatsby narrative.

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February 16, 2022 /Katie Musgrave
F Scott Fitzgerald, Writing, Language, Imagery, The Great Gatsby
Craft, Language, Writing


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