Tag: smell

Can you smell it? How to use strong imagery like Natalie Kusz in “Vital Signs”!

Jun 15, 2014

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by

Ace Baker

in choose your weapon, fiction, nonfiction, writing technique

Imagery is a definite “choose your weapon” topic. I mean, you have five senses to choose from (or combinations of them). While sight and touch are present in many works, look at how Natalie Kusz appeals to the sense of SMELL in “Vital Signs”: I was always waking up, in those days, to the smell…