the.com/sensory writing
prose that makes the reader's nose remember a smell it never smelled.
means writing that uses concrete sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch details instead of abstract statements to put the reader inside the scene.
from traces back to show don't tell, a workshop mantra popularized in 20th century creative writing pedagogy, itself rooted in imagist poets like pound and williams who insisted no ideas but in things.
most overused sensesight, so writers get told use more smell
smell and memoryolfactory nerve wires directly into the brain's memory center
workshop ruleshow don't tell is really a sensory rule