Wednesday, March 29, 2017

"57 Senses or Things Your Character May Be Aware of to Use in Your Writing"


  1. Time
  2. Sight
  3. Taste
  4. Color
  5. Depth
  6. Solidity (barriers)
  7. Relative sizes (external)
  8. Sound
  9. Pitch
  10. Tone
  11. Volume
  12. Rhythm
  13. Smell
  14. Touch (Including pressure, friction, heat, cold, oiliness)
  15. Personal emotion
  16. Endocrine
  17. states
  18. Awareness of awareness
  19. Personal size
  20. Organic sensation (including hunger)
  21. Heartbeat
  22. Blood circulation
  23. Cellular and bacterial position
  24. Gravitic (self and other weights)
  25. Motion of self
  26. Motion (exterior)
  27. Body position
  28. Joint position
  29. Internal temperature
  30. External temperature
  31. Balancerature
  32. Muscular tension
  33. Saline content of cells
  34. Fields/magnetic
  35. Time track motion
  36. Physical energy
  37. Self-determinism
  38. Moisture
  39. Sound direction
  40. Emotional state of others
  41. Personal position on the tone scale
  42. Affinity (self and others)
  43. Communication (self and others)
  44. Emotional state of groups
  45. Compass direction
  46. Level of consciousness
  47. Pain
  48. Perception of conclusions
  49. Perception of computing
  50. Perception of imagination
  51. Perception of having perceived
  52. Awareness of not knowing
  53. Awareness of importance or unimportance
  54. Awareness of others
  55. Awareness of location and placement (including masses, spaces, location itself) 
  56. Perception of appetite
  57. Kinesthesia 
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2 comments:

  1. CMMSeptember 13, 2017 at 8:05 PM

    And what, pray tell, is "balancerature"? This list, but especially that word, has my entire writing group laughing hysterically.

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  2. UnknownJuly 20, 2018 at 7:51 AM

    Just started using this list and had to delete balancerature off and switch the heading to 56 hahahaha

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