#71 Touch, Sight, and the Sixth Sense in Your Writing

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#71 Touch, Sight, and the Sixth Sense in Your Writing

Three writers on the sense of touch, sight, and the sixth sense in their work.

Rachel Thompson • Editor

Apr 04, 2023

In this episode, it’s part two of our most recent six senses showcase.The writers you will hear all participated in the workshop series I offered last year on the six senses.As I mentioned in part one of this series, we had so much goodness, that we did our showcase over two episodes. That’s why you’ll hear us mention the readers and speakers from our past episode, number 69, which featured Whitney French on the sense of sound, Cicely Belle on the sense of smell, Sarah Munn on the sense of taste. So, if you haven’t yet, I encourage you to go back and listen to that episode found at rachelthompson.co/podcast/69In this episode, we feature Tamara Jong on the sense of touch, A.L. Bishop on the sense of sight, and Candace Webb on the sixth sense.Listen to learn about how we’re comparing our “brain notes,” as our guide to sight, A.L. Bishop called it. Hear how the writers shifted their approach to these three senses and how that helped them bring their more embodied writing to life. (Or intuition in the case of the sixth sense.)At the end of our discussion, I will offer prompts on the sense of touch, sight, and the sixth sense for you to do some starter writing, a little free-writing that will help you hone in and bring more specificity, concrete, felt experience, and clarity to your own writing.You can download twelve prompts, two for each sense, in a PDF in the show notes for this episode. This is episode number 71, so you would go to https://rachelthompson.co/podcast/71/At the end of our discussion, I offer prompts on the sense of touch, sight, and the sixth sense for you to do some writing that will help you hone in and bring more specificity and clarity to your own writing.Download twelve prompts, two for each of the six senses, in a PDF in the show notes for this episode. Show notes and transcript at https://rachelthompson.co/podcast/71/

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