Sensation is the
fiction-writing mode
A fiction-writing mode is a manner of writing with its own set of conventions regarding how, when, and where it should be used.
Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct forms ...
for portraying a character's perception of the senses. According to
Ron Rozelle, "...the success of your story or novel will depend on many things, but the most crucial is your ability to bring your reader into it. And that reader will be most completely in when you deliver the actual sensations of the many things that comprise your story" . As stated by
Jessica Page Morrell
Jessica Page Morrell is an American author.
Career
Morrell is a contributor to ''The Writer'' and ''Writer's Digest'' magazines.
Her book, ''Thanks But This Isn't For Us'' (2009), describes mistakes that new authors make and how these writers ...
, "You breathe life into fiction by translating the senses onto the page, producing stories rooted in the physical world ... that creates a tapestry, a galaxy of interwoven sensory ingredients."
Also according to Rozelle, "The sensation of what something feels like is used to describe everything from sensual pleasure to pain and torture. It's a wide range, and your readers have actually experienced only some of those feelings. So your job is to either make them recall exactly what it feels like when something occurs in your story or, if they haven't experienced it, what it would feel like if they did" . Morrell describes a "sensory surround", which when "coupled with drama tugs the reader into
hestory and forces him to keep reading."
The importance of conveying sensation in fiction is widely accepted. However, recognition of sensation as a distinct fiction-writing mode is a matter of discussion.
See also
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Fiction-writing modes
A fiction-writing mode is a manner of writing with its own set of conventions regarding how, when, and where it should be used.
Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct form ...
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Rhetorical modes
The rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse) are a long-standing attempt to broadly classify the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and Speech, speaking, into Narrative, narration, description, Exposition ...
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Style (fiction)
In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation. As Bryan Ray notes, however, style is a broader concern, one that can describe "readers' relationships with, t ...
References
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* {{cite book
, title = Write Great Fiction: Description & Setting
, first = Ron
, last = Rozelle
, publisher = Writer's Digest Books
, location = Cincinnati, OH
, year = 2005
, isbn = 1-58297-327-X
Sensory systems
Perception