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...
Writer’s Tool Review: The Bookshelf Muse – a comprehensive thesaurus!
Ever find yourself struggling to describe your character’s emotion? Or the place that she is in? Or how to describe the weather? Or colors, shapes, textures? Or some sort of strange symbolism? I bet you do. I know I do. With the blog of Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi, those are worries of the past! At The Bookshelf Muse, Angela and Becca offer countless descriptions of emotion, like amusement, frustration, excitement, anger… You name it. Some are even separated in “introverted reaction” and “extroverted reaction”. How cool is that? An example: Excited/Elated High color; a flushed appearance, Smiling, grinning, Laughter, Bouncing foot to foot, squealing, screaming, shouting, hooping, hollering, Pretending to faint...
DYK #15: Does our perception fool us?
First, look at the following pictures: …You probably noticed you can’t count the black dots, because in fact, there aren’t any. Kudos if you saw that the top lines of the trapezoids are equally large. Most people think the top trapezoid’s top line is larger! Images like these always make me wonder whether what we perceive (by processing sensory information) is true or not. (Have you ever played Guitar Hero? Afterwards, did you notice that wherever you looked, it seemed like the world was “floating away”?) This video explains the psychology of perception brilliantly. Please share your thoughts on human perception and what your experiences are! Download article as PDF ...
Losing your sight even while you’re not blind
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be blind? I have. My world would be quite limited without my sight. I think what I would miss most is seeing my boyfriend’s face, reading (even if I would probably learn Braille, I would miss letters) and I would miss using my computer, among lots of other things. In the DSM-IV-TR, there is a section of disorders called the “somatoform disorders”. Among them are hypochondriasis, pain disorder and body dismorphic disorder. One of the most interesting among them is conversion disorder. Essentially, what happens when a conversion disorder presents itself is that the patient suffers from blindness, paralysis (either in a specific limb or the entire body), non-epileptic seizures or loss (or impairment)...
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