i’m not sure i have a fave yknow! they’re all good!! 

i think maybe some might come a bit easier to me than others (e.g., i don’t have a v strong sense of smell, so it’s not my go-to necessarily for scene-setting unless it’s abt something badly stinky, whereas a combo of bad hearing + constant music + loud life i think might actually lend itself to describing things like volume, intrusive noises, specifics of sounds etc etc).

i’m not necessarily one for detailed (visual) scene-setting, and i think with reasonably tight pov + a fair bit of interior monologue stuff, the challenge is inserting sensory detail in a way that feels natural. there’s definitely been times where ive thought i should include more e.g., visual detail (say with the (not) safe house in time to kill, or the club in do you like drugs) but then i’m like...would they be taking it in/commenting on it (n respectively: it’s a familiar location to rio/beth’s totally out of it; d r u g s) so it’s kind of a toss up btwn what info do i think the reader NEEDS / what’s lost if they’re imagining something a bit different to what i am? 

but what i think is kinda cool abt that, is it means i’m not necessarily primacying (appaz not a word, but should be!) sight vs. other senses.

n then also, the five-sense sensorium is a kind of narrow view at best, so i’d say some faves are:

balance (n motion!)

synaesthesia/attributing things to the ‘wrong’ sense/multiple senses in tandem

pain

(lack of) spatial (as distinct from touch)

“6th”/vaguely premonitory/unsure of what specific sense

fashion (as relates to ‘robes’)

panic / overload

and then also like overarchingly, i think just DETAIL. i think what’s fun abt trying to find a more interesting way to phrase something, is that you can also get at the specifics of what you’re intending to convey, which a lot of sort stock phrasing doesnt quite?

say: ‘he grabbed her hand’ - that could mean like palm-to-palm or clutching at the fingers or holding wrist-side or interlnked fingers or idk using his giant lobster pincers or litter picker or something! if it’s not super important that i the reader know what’s intended here (maybe cos it’s abt someone dragging someone else out of somewhere however they can...?) then cool. but if i’m supposed to know it’s aggressive or sweet or gross or some combo or something entirely different, then maybe a bit more detail to the movement or placement or conditions or impact or whatever is helpful?