by Cyle Young @CyleYoung
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Cyle Young is thankful God blessed him with the uniqueness of being an ADD-riddled…SQUIRREL!...binge writer. Not much unlike the classic video game Frogger, Cyle darts back and forth between various writing genres. He crafts princess children’s stories, how-to advice for parents, epic fantasy tales, and easy readers.
Now that we’ve taken a
deeper look at two of the senses, sound and sight. Let’s take a more in depth
look at one of the hardest senses to describe in some settings—taste.
All great authors write
using the five senses, and the best know how to incorporate just a touch of
taste to highlight an emotion, experience, or mood, or to fill out a setting.
These masters draw their readers deeper into the world, scene, or setting of a
story by embracing utilizing the five unique qualities of taste
savory, sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
The tongue alone has over
10,000 taste buds that are able to work together to taste over 100,000
different flavors. Simply describing a taste as sweet is like describing the
Mona Lisa as just “some painting”.
Writers have the ability to
create masterpieces out of taste descriptions. A word picture written in a book
has the ability to not only connect with the reader, but if done properly, it
can cause the reader to salivate or unconsciously experience that same
sensation while they read. As an author, you have the ability to be like the
famous bell-ringing scientist Pavlov. Each taste you craft into your manuscript
helps heighten your reader’s sense of connection to your story world.
As an exercise take
sixty-seconds and write what you taste in the scene shown in this picture.
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at the risk of being too (ahem) bland.... i taste the salt on the spray of the ocean, the fish and lemon on the grill, perhaps a mai tai (although i've never had one and can't describe... LOL)
ReplyDeleteYum! I didn't think about the lemon.
DeleteI taste the salty water and gritty sand as I trip and fall headlong into the wave on the beach. After rinsing off, I join my family for a picnic, eating savory potato salad and sour pickles. Our happiness at being together is hindered by the bitter memory of 'Grandpa Joe' drowning near here two years ago.
DeleteAhhh sour pickles! :) I like the image of falling headlong into the waves.
DeleteKatherine Reay is a master of using the senses. (Bronte Plot) (Jane and Lizzy)
ReplyDeleteGreat suggestion!
ReplyDeleteIt was sunset, but a storm rolled toward us. The wind blew loose sand in my face. The memory of playing in a sandbox as a child mingled with the familiar summer taste of salt, sunscreen, and sweat on my lips. But never had I tasted dead fish, as I did at that moment ... when the storm pushed the red tide ashore.
ReplyDeleteGreat article! Thanks for the exercise.
ReplyDeleteThe breath of the approaching storm spit water across my face. The bitter taste of salt and seaweed turned my stomach. Normandy had forever ruined beaches for me. And I had a feeling the approaching storm would be just as devastating.
I taste the warm tropical salty dryness of the sea as the waves broke and raced onto my legs and gone in a flash, leaving a trial of sand like dust on my legs as dry as the salty sea.
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