allbingo | November 2020 - SENSE-ation fest!

Welcome to the November SENSE-ation fest!

It’s common to hear “the five senses,” but there are a great many more to work with, and by using unusual senses, we can add a great deal more clarity to our creative endeavors. My list is cribbed at the last minute from work done by Michael J. Cohen, who divides our perception of the world into four major categories, and then gets delightfully specific.

I’ve randomized the list to make it harder to take out entire categories of senses, but I do hope other players will forgive me for doing so; I am trying to avoid my own tendencies of focusing on the most familiar senses. Instead, let’s challenge ourselves to tie into the senses that are needed in a scene, story, or poem. Look for a new way to connect with the audience, and see how it contributes to the creation.

First, the bingo card generator is here:
http://an.owomoyela.net/fun/bingo_generator#generated_card

Next, the word list is here, in no particular order. If there’s anything that doesn’t fit, take it out of the list before hitting the button to generate a card. (I won’t know, and no one will tell!)

Light and sight, Corilus sense (as The Doctor does), physical pain, seeing without eyes, mental or spiritual distress, sense of body motion, fear or dread, hearing,  procreative urges, smelling, subsonic or ultrasonic frequencies, sense of play, taste, sense of time, sense of weather changes,  humor and laughter, sense of community or belonging, position in space (navigation), electromagnetic fields, sense of self, sense of ownership/control,  perception of color, interconnecting with others, appetite for physical needs, awareness of nature, skin pressure, sense of language and communication, humidity sense including internal regulation, sense of humility/ethics, moods associated with color, sense of form or design, pheromone sense, internal pressure, reasoning and  memory, chemical sensitivity, sense of consciousness, personal visibility or invisibility, intuition, sense of gravity, sense of creativity and aesthetics, sensitivity to invisible radiation, sense of generational time, sense of temperature and temperature change, psychic sense or absence, dreaming, meditation, sleep, sense of season, sense of metamorphosis, sense of stress, sublime love/sacrifice, sense of balance, electromagnetic sensitivity and polarity, proximity sense,

Here’s a sample five by five card (using “Free Space” in the center):

sense of gravity	pheromone sense	Corilus sense (as The Doctor does)	sense of stress	sense of language and communication
sense of play	seeing without eyes	electromagnetic sensitivity and polarity	sense of metamorphosis	sense of generational time
sense of time	moods associated with color	FREE SPACE	personal visibility or invisibility	sleep
position in space (navigation)	sense of consciousness	reasoning and memory	meditation	fear or dread
proximity sense	sense of ownership/control	procreative urges	humor and laughter	psychic sense or absence

I don’t have a way to make icons or banners any longer, but what I do have is a huge pile of words rattling around in my brain.. For anyone who gets a bingo (any five boxes in a five by five grid, four in a four by four grid, et cetera), I’ll write a scene with two hundred fifty words for each square in that single line. For anyone who gets a full blackout, I’ll double the base offer, but beyond that it would simply take too long to get the prizes to each winner.

If anyone would like to see my writing, check for “Magpie Monday” or “Feathering the Nest” prompts each month. I love writing gentle fiction and hardcore comfort, and I will send each winner a private message to ask what kind of story they would like. I try to tailor stories to the target reader, and your reading copy is meant to be enjoyed.

The fest will begin on November 1, and continue through the 30th, and if someone accomplishes a bingo on the first day, I’ll get right on creating their prize, so please let us know so we can cheer!