Imagery Lecture

• Here is a clear, smooth lake with an electric blue color. You can hear the hum of the wind from the top of silent mountains, laying beside the perfectly circular lake. The sky is cloudless, fading from light blue to colorless white on the horizon. The sunlight falls across favored pine trees, some marked by shade and others boasting deep green hues. You can smell the clean, cold pine air and touch the hardened rock, cold in the shade and warm in the sunlight.

​Describing the 5 senses to help your reader imagine your story.

• ​description

• ​taste, touch, see, smell, hear

• ​show, not tell

• Makes writing more descriptive

• Makes writing more enjoyable

• Forces writing to be specific and precise

• If you just described this image as "a lake surrounded by mountains and trees", that wouldn't do it justice, now would it?

Imagine you are here.