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Sensory Detail Scanner

Count sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste cues per 1,000 words — find white-room scenes and missing senses fast.

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Paste your text above, then click Analyze — or use Try sample for a quick demo.

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About this tool

Strong scenes engage more than sight — yet AI drafts often describe everything visually and ignore smell, touch, sound, and taste. This sensory detail scanner counts words tied to each of the five senses, flags senses you never use, and highlights where your prose leans on a single channel. Paste an immersive scene from Story Studio or any chapter; analysis runs locally in your browser.

What you can do

  • Counts sensory language across sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste
  • Flags senses that are absent or underused in the paste
  • Highlights dominant-sense paragraphs for rebalancing
  • Curated lexicon of common sensory verbs and nouns in fiction
  • Works on individual scenes before expanding to full chapters
  • Pairs with show-don't-tell checker for emotion-through-sensation rewrites
  • Private browser analysis — no manuscript upload

Why manuscript analysis matters for fiction

Rule-based analyzers catch patterns human eyes skim past—especially in AI drafts where filter words, adverbs, and passive voice cluster predictably. Use metrics to prioritize revision, not to flatten your voice. Run a chapter first, fix the worst offenders, then scan the full manuscript.

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How to use it

  1. Paste a scene or chapter into the text area.
  2. Click Analyze to map sensory language across five channels.
  3. Check which senses are missing or overrepresented.
  4. Add one concrete detail from an absent sense per weak paragraph.
  5. Re-scan after revision to confirm better sensory balance.

Tips for fiction authors

  • One smell or texture can anchor a scene faster than three visual details — readers experience fiction through multiple channels.
  • AI description defaults to sight. Deliberately add sound in action scenes and touch in intimate moments.
  • Avoid listing all five senses in one paragraph — spread them across the scene for natural immersion.
  • Horror and thriller benefit from smell and sound; romance often gains from touch and temperature.
  • Run this on your opening page — sight-only openings are a common reason agents stop reading.

Common questions

Why balance the five senses?

Readers experience scenes through multiple channels. Sight-only description feels flat; one smell or texture can anchor a moment.

Does it flag every sensory word?

It uses a curated lexicon of common sensory verbs and nouns — a heuristic guide, not exhaustive NLP.

Is my manuscript uploaded?

No. Sensory scanning runs entirely in your browser on Entangled Text.

Should every scene use all five senses?

No. Use the scanner to find blind spots, not to force a checklist into every paragraph.

How does this relate to show-don't-tell?

Sensory detail is a primary way to show emotion and setting. This tool finds where telling could become concrete sensation.

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