In this episode, we aren’t just looking at a word; we’re listening to the language itself. We explore "onomatopoeia"—the primal tool that allows a storyteller to bypass the logic of the brain and hit the listener directly in the ear by "making names" out of the very sounds they describe.
In this episode, we discuss:
Composing the Scene: How to use percussive or sibilant words to build a 3D soundtrack within your prose, turning a simple description into an immersive physical experience.
Are you using words that merely describe an action, or are you choosing "names" that breathe, click, and hum to make your readers hear the story?
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