Sensory description trouble?, Try this exercise.

Ahoy.

I've just rememebred one of my favorite exercises to use when getting in the mood to do really good descriptions.

It's a simple exercise, really. All you need is some sort of blindfold and piece of fruit or a vegetable. Other foods work, too, but I learned with fruit, so it's the example that I provide here. (Of course, you could just keep your eyes closed, but then it is tempting to cheat.) It's best if you pick some food that makes noise when you eat it, so that your other four senses get more input. Intentionally disabling your sight makes the other senses more vivid and lets you focus on them.

Something fun to have with this exercise is to have a tape or voice recorder of some sort, so that when the impressions come into your mind, you can get them into hard copy right away.

Take that first bite, and concentrate on what your other senses are telling you: the sounds, the scents, the tastes, and the texture. Don't skimp on the details. In fact, the more details that you manage to cram into something as simple as a bite of an apple, the better.

I've done this a few times now, sometimes for the sake of brushing up on the description technique and sometimes just for the fun of it. A sample, using a glass of ice-cold pomegranate juice: