0
Honestly, I keep seeing writing prompts about 'a world without color' and they always miss the point about sensory detail.
Ngl, after reading 12 different stories from a prompt like that in my local workshop, they all just describe gray stuff and never get into how people would actually experience sound, taste, or texture differently to compensate.
4 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In4 Comments
thomas.eva1mo ago
Yeah but the voice thing is a bit off. You wouldn't just know a mood from silence, you'd feel the air change around them first.
6
skyler_johnson322mo ago
Skip the gray sludge descriptions and make a character stub their toe in the dark. Write about how they learn to tell fruit apart by smell alone, or how a friend's voice becomes their anchor point in a crowd. The good stuff is in the other senses ramping up to fill the gap.
4
sam_cooper2mo ago
Exactly, the "voice as an anchor point" thing is key. You'd start recognizing the tiny cracks in someone's speech or the way they breathe before they talk. After a while, you wouldn't just know it's your friend, you'd know their mood from the weight of their silence or the shift in their tone. The whole idea of recognizing a person becomes less about a picture and more about a sound print.
1