Course Overview

Overview

Most writers default to sight. Some include sound. Almost nobody writes smell, taste, touch, proprioception (the body’s sense of itself in space), and the seventh sense — weather. The reader feels the gap. Five weeks of sensory drills, scene rewrites, and a sensory audit of your current draft. By the end you’ll write with all seven senses in active rotation, without making the sensory work feel performative. Most students stop overusing sight by week two. The course is drill-heavy, drafting-immediate, and embodied throughout.

What’s inside

• 5 modules, 25 lessons + sensory drills — embodied, drill-heavy
• Mindset Maven Test that names YOUR specific sense-default pattern
• 5 guided meditations averaging 10 minutes — paired to sensory drills
• Toolkit: the Seven-Sense Audit Worksheet + the Sensory Drill Workbook
• Lifetime access, unlimited retakes — sensory skills compound
• Companion blog post per module — public, perfect for the writer whose prose is ‘visual to a fault’

Who this is for

• Novelists
• Memoirists
• Poets
• Screenwriters

FAQs

Why six senses, and what’s the seventh?
We use six because proprioception (your body’s sense of itself in space and orientation) is a distinct sense most writers ignore. The seventh — weather — isn’t technically a sense; it’s the environmental sensory context that affects how everything else registers. Weather work is the under-rated craft move.

Will this make my prose feel overloaded?
Module 3 covers calibration. Sensory writing isn’t ‘add all seven to every paragraph.’ It’s ‘choose two-to-three per scene with intention.’ The calibration is the work.

Does this work for poetry?
Yes — module 4 covers poetry-specific sensory work, including the compression senses are subject to in tight forms.

What about the synesthetic effects (smelling colors, hearing textures)?
Module 5 covers synesthesia as a deliberate craft choice. Useful in specific contexts; overused in many drafts. The course teaches the calibration.

How is this different from the sensory advice in workshop?
Most workshop sensory advice stops at ‘use the senses.’ This course goes deeper — which sense per scene, which sense per character, which sense per genre. The depth is the difference.

Can I retake?
Yes. Unlimited. Sensory skills compound.

What one student said

★★★★★

“I work as a perfumer. My memoir is about scent — the family business, my grandmother, the eight notes I’ve spent thirty years trying to recreate. Sensory writing should have been easy for me. It was not. This course gave me language for what I could smell but couldn’t render on the page. The ‘forgetting the senses’ framing in the title sounded weird until I realized I had been writing scent as taste, which is a different sense, which is the very mistake the course corrects. I am eating my words about courses for writers.”

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