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Synesthesia

Mix senses for unique descriptions

6 exercises~10 min each

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Describe a piece of music as if it were a landscape. What do you see when you hear it?

Let notes become colors, rhythms become terrain, melodies become weather.

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What You'll Practice

Evaluate creative sense-mixing, evocative imagery, and originality of combinations.

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Synesthesia: A Creative Writing Exercise

What does the color blue taste like? What is the texture of silence? Synesthesia teaches you to cross sensory boundaries, creating descriptions so unusual and precise that readers experience language in entirely new ways.

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