Unsolicited writing advice, no. #43:
Scent is a powerful emotional and psychological trigger. Many actors use scent to help them get into character. You can do, too, as a writer: teach yourself to associate a scent with your work in progress, and see if it helps you get into the zone more quickly….
Scent is a powerful emotional and psychological trigger. Many actors use scent to help them get into character. You can do, too, as a writer: teach yourself to associate a scent with your work in progress, and see if it helps you get into the zone more quickly….
Comments
This makes sense, but - how do you choose a scent?! Esp if you don't have a long history with it & a library from which to choose? Where do you begin?
(I suspect this is as foreign to you as scent is to me! 😄)
The only scent I can think of are spices & right now I'm not sure what smells good to me AND that I can reliably reproduce. An oil / essence (vanilla, orange, almond) might do it (& I actually have all of those). Experimentation time! 😄
Thank you! 🙏
I've been using different music genres to set the mood for scenes or characters, but this is brilliant.