Monday, November 2, 2026 • 4-5:15pm PT • WEBINAR

Make Them Feel It: Emotion, Imagery and The Senses

Make readers feel what your characters feel. Jordan Rosenfeld shows you how to use sensory detail, imagery, character cues, metaphor, and simile to create emotionally vivid writing that draws readers closer and keeps them invested.

Bring readers closer to your characters through emotion, sensory detail, and vivid imagery with Jordan Rosenfeld

Ideal for: Fiction and memoir writers who want to create more emotionally vivid, immersive writing that readers can feel.

Readers don’t just want to understand what your characters are experiencing—they want to feel it.

Emotion is the thread that connects readers to a character’s inner world and keeps them invested in the story. In this craft-focused webinar, Jordan Rosenfeld will show you how to move beyond simply naming emotions and instead bring them vividly to life through sensory detail, imagery, character behavior, metaphor, and other powerful craft tools.

You’ll explore how carefully chosen images can transform serviceable sentences into evocative writing that conveys emotion and theme with subtlety. Through contemporary examples and practical techniques, you’ll learn to mine your characters’ emotional landscapes and create moments that resonate on a visceral level.

You’ll leave with a clearer, more practical understanding of “show, don’t tell”—and new tools for writing emotion readers can genuinely experience.

What You’ll Learn

  • Character cues and behaviors that reveal emotion naturally on the page
  • How sensory detail and imagery can deepen emotional impact
  • Ways to use metaphor and simile with greater precision and subtlety
  • How to draw from rich emotional landscapes to create authentic, resonant imagery

This Webinar is Ideal for

Fiction and memoir writers who want readers to connect more deeply with their characters

Writers who want to strengthen emotional impact without overexplaining

Writers looking to make greater use of imagery, sensory detail, metaphor, and simile

Writers who want their prose to feel more vivid, immersive, and emotionally resonant

Make Them Feel It: Emotion, Imagery and The Senses

$55.00

Monday, November 2, 2026 • 4-5:15pm PT • WEBINAR

You'll Walk Away With

Practical techniques for showing emotion rather than simply naming it

A stronger understanding of how imagery shapes a reader’s emotional experience

Tools for creating sensory-rich, emotionally layered scenes

A clearer approach to writing characters readers can connect with and care about

Jordan Rosenfeld

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Jordan Rosenfeld

Jordan Rosenfeld, BA, MFA, is author of the novel Fallout (May, 2025), Forged in Grace and Women in Red, and six books on the craft of writing including How to Write a Page-Turner, the bestselling Make a Scene, Writing the Intimate Character, A Writer’s Guide to Persistence, Writing Deep Scenes and Write Free. Jordan’s articles and essays have been published in hundreds of publications, The Atlantic, LitHub, The New York Times, The Rumpus, Salon, Scientific American, The Weeklings, and many more. Jordan teaches online writing classes and at numerous well respected writing conferences, including the Writer’s Digest Annual + Novel Writing conferences and The San Francisco Writer’s Conference. She is a freelance manuscript editor and writing coach.

Discover how emotion, imagery, and the senses can transform your prose into an experience readers can feel

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Yes! Most of our workshops are streamed live on Zoom, allowing you to learn in real time and interact with the instructor. If you can't make it, don’t worry—we will send you a link to watch or download the recording within 24 to 48 hours after the session ends.

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