Using all five senses to immerse the reader

As writers, we tend towards language which visually describes our characters and the settings in which we place them. Imagery helps too, as in this sentence – describing washing on a line – from an unpublished short story of my own which a fellow author commented on as helping them visualise the scene.

‘The way that blouse shimmied in the breezes is how the beech leaves shimmer with the sun on ’em.’

But sight is not the only sense humans possess of course. There’s also hearing, taste, t...