Creating atmosphere: mention all 5 senses

Art by Andreas Lie Bergen

Or 6, if your character is a psychic. Or 7. Or whatever the number. As long as you mention at least a couple!

What's about to follow is a rant brought on by all this editing I'm doing right now, and by reading writing samples some friends send me, and by reading writing submissions to @ellowrites. Sure, there are other, BIGGER,more important parts to every story, like the characters and the plot and the dialogue, but without a sense of atmosphere you're fucked. Som...