Sensation
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Sensation is the fiction-writing mode
Fiction-writing modes
A fiction-writing mode is a manner of writing with its own set of conventions regarding how, when, and where it should be used.Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct forms of expression, or modes, each with its own purposes...

 for portraying a character's perception of the senses. According to Ron Rozelle
Ron Rozelle
Ron Rozelle is an American author of five books, including Description & Setting: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Believable World of People, Places, and Events .-Awards and recognition:...

, “. . .the success of your story or novel will depend on many things, but the most crucial is your ability to bring your reader into it. And that reader will be most completely in when you deliver the actual sensations of the many things that comprise your story” . As stated by Jessica Page Morrell
Jessica Page Morrell
Jessica Page Morrell is an American author, writing coach, freelance editor, corporate trainer, and columnist. Her articles have been published in The Writer and Writer's Digest magazines. She is a former food-and-wine columnist, restaurant reviewer, and freelance journalist...

, “You breathe life into fiction by translating the senses onto the page, producing stories rooted in the physical world . . . that creates a tapestry, a galaxy of interwoven sensory ingredients.”

Also according to Rozelle, “The sensation of what something feels like is used to describe everything from sensual pleasure to pain and torture. It’s a wide range, and your readers have actually experienced only some of those feelings. So your job is to either make them recall exactly what it feels like when something occurs in your story or, if they haven’t experienced it, what it would feel like if they did” . Morrell describes a “sensory surround,” which when “coupled with drama tugs the reader into [the] story and forces him to keep reading.”

The importance of conveying sensation in fiction is widely accepted. However, recognition of sensation as a distinct fiction-writing mode is a matter of discussion.
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