Sensory Psychology Chart for Fiction Writers by C.M. Stewart

I would like to welcome C.M. Stewart today. Please enjoy this wonderful blog on sensory psychology and I hope the chart will be of use to you! As fiction authors, most of us are familiar with the countless Character Questionnaires, Worksheets, and Surveys. These can help us get to know our characters better, and add depth and believability to our characters’ appearances, personalities, and motives. I highly recommend Manon’s Main Character Survey. Here’s her survey introduction, and here’s a direct link to the survey. But what happens after you’ve developed your characters? You still need to show them reacting to each other as seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling (the stuff real people do) individuals. A sensory chart showing how your...