Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Module 1: Your Default Sense (Which One Do You Over-Use)Week one we diagnose your default. Most writers over-use sight by a factor of 3-5x. Some over-use sound (audiobook listeners, screenwriters). A few over-use touch (poets, romance writers). The default6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s YOUR Sense Default (Honest Audit)?2 Questions
- 1.3Meditation: The Body-Scan Audio (Trains the Ear for the Other Senses)11
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: The Year I Audited Every Sensory Default and Wrote a Smell Book on Purpose15
- 1.6Companion Blog: You Have a Sense Default. Most Writers Are Sight-Heavy by 3-5x. Audit Yours.10
- Module 2: Smell and Taste (the Two Most Under-Used Senses)Week two installs smell and taste — the two most under-used senses. They carry the most memory (smell is the most memory-bound sense; taste anchors physical bodily presence). We cover the install move6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: Which of Smell or Taste Is Most Absent From YOUR Draft?2 Questions
- 2.3Meditation: The Smell-Memory Audio (Trains the Nose for Writing)12
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: The Five Scents That Carried a Whole Memoir15
- 2.6Companion Blog: Smell and Taste Are the Two Most Under-Used Senses. Install One Today.10
- Module 3: Touch and Proprioception (the Body Senses)Week three covers touch and proprioception — the body senses. Touch is the sense of contact (between, self, environment). Proprioception is the body's awareness of itself in space and orientation. Bot6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: How Embodied Is YOUR Current Prose?2 Questions
- 3.3Meditation: The Body-Awareness Audio (Trains for Proprioception)11
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: The Scene Where I First Installed Proprioception (And the Way the Body Came Online)15
- 3.6Companion Blog: Proprioception Is a Writing Tool. Most Writers Don’t Know It Exists.10
- Module 4: The Seventh Sense — Weather (the Sensory Context That Carries Everything)Week four covers weather — the seventh sense. Not technically a sense, but the environmental sensory context that affects how every other sense registers. We cover the install moves for weather (speci6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: How Is Weather Currently Present in YOUR Draft?2 Questions
- 4.3Meditation: The Weather Audit Audio10
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: The Weather That Carried a Whole Novel (Without Pathetic Fallacy)15
- 4.6Companion Blog: Weather Is a Sense. Specific Weather Carries Everything Else. Install It.10
- Module 5: The Sensory Calibration (the Lifetime Practice)Final week. You'll calibrate sensory use across your draft — choosing two-to-three senses per scene with intention, varying defaults across the book, integrating the seven-sense audit into your standa6
- 5.1Module 5: Overview20
- 5.2Mindset Maven Test: What Calibration Will YOUR Draft Need Most?2 Questions
- 5.3Meditation: Closing Audio: The Sensory Architecture Document13
- 5.4Writing Prompt: Module 530
- 5.5INSPIRATION: Twelve Years of Sensory Calibration (and the Prose That Built)15
- 5.6Companion Blog: Build a Sensory Architecture for Every Draft. Refresh Yearly. Build the Prose Over Decades.10