As we go through our everyday lives, we experience the world through all of our senses - so why shouldn't that be true about the people we write about? Imagine going into your favorite restaurant and having to write an essay about it. What are the sounds you hear inside the place? What are the smells/aromas/odors? Does anything in the place leave a particular taste in your mouth (other than the food?) What about touch - if you put your elbow on the table, do you feel anything sticking to it?
You could write an entire essay about a place, using elaborate description, without ever describing what you see. And yet, often when we're asked to describe something, we only tell what it looks like - It's big. It's red. It's round...
Life is far more interesting than that, and our descriptions of life around us can be, too.
Be a "senses taker."
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