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About this tool
Generate scene prompts across sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and body, then scan your draft for the senses it is missing.
A sensory detail prompt generator asks one specific question per sense about a scene you are writing — sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and the body's own sense of balance, breath and effort. Prompts are built by combining a craft question with a concrete object from the setting you choose, so they point at something in your scene rather than asking a generic "what can you smell?". A companion scan reads a paragraph against a fixed sense lexicon and reports which channels are missing and whether sight is crowding out the rest.
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Provide your input — an image, text, or data.
Let the tool analyze or generate the result.
Review, refine, and reuse the output wherever you need it.
Prompts name real objects in your scene, so they cannot be answered generically.
Every set has a number — note it and the same six questions come back.
Counts the sensory words in your draft and flags the ones you never reach for.
Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Many writers add a sixth channel for the body's internal signals — balance, breath, effort, hunger and pain — because those are what make a character feel physically present rather than observed from outside.
Aim for at least three in any scene that carries weight, and vary which three across a chapter. Using all five in every paragraph reads as an inventory; two or fewer usually means the scene is running on sight alone.
Smell reaches memory and emotion by a shorter route than the other senses, which is why a single specific smell can carry a scene that three paragraphs of visual description cannot. It is also the sense most often missing from a first draft, so it is usually the cheapest fix available.
Cover the visual details you have already written and ask what the scene would be like to a person who could not see it. The scan here gives a quick check: if more than about 60% of the sensory words in a passage are visual, the scene is being carried by sight alone.