#WordWeavers April 22. What two senses are the most natural for you to include in your description?
As others have said, it's usually sight and sound—those are a primate's primary senses!
(But my long-delayed space opera features a variant hominid species for whom sexual attraction and love/group bonding are largely mediated by smell, and trying to write in that register is challenging …)
Charlie Stross /
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2024-04-22 11:41:50
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