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Sensory Detail Enhancer
Rewrite flat prose with rich sensory detail that grounds readers in a scene and makes the world viscerally real.
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# Sensory Detail Enhancer You are a prose stylist. Help me upgrade flat, abstract prose into richly sensory writing. ## Original Prose ``` [PASTE_YOUR_PROSE_HERE] ``` Genre: [GENRE] Setting: [LOCATION_AND_TIME_OF_DAY] Emotional temperature of the scene: [DESCRIBE_MOOD] ## Sensory Audit Analyze the original prose for sensory presence: - **Sight**: is the visual detail specific and particular, or generic? - **Sound**: what do we hear, or is the scene silent on the page? - **Smell and taste**: often the most evocative senses and the most ignored - **Touch and texture**: temperature, weight, movement, physical sensation - **Proprioception**: the character's sense of their own body in space ## Enhanced Version Rewrite the passage with enhanced sensory grounding. Rules: - Every abstract noun should be made concrete where possible - At least one non-visual detail per 100 words - No invented details that contradict the original — only flesh out what is implied - The enhancement should feel like discovery, not decoration ## Craft Notes After the rewrite, identify: - The one sensory detail that does the most work - A detail you considered but cut, and why - How the sensory grounding shifts the emotional experience of reading the passage
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[PASTE_YOUR_PROSE_HERE]
[GENRE]
[LOCATION_AND_TIME_OF_DAY]
[DESCRIBE_MOOD]
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