It’s fun to create visual images and character profiles that people care about and every time you use your spatial intelligence in this way, you grow more. Not a bad exchange considering you also get a memorable story from the deal too.

Writers add color, textures and shapes to stories when they draw on their spatial intelligence to paint, shape and build a story so that readers’ can see the images as if they appeared on stage. Robyn McMaster over at Art and Mind says it best through O’Keefe’s stories about flowers and Billy Collins’ pictures in his poem, “The Death of a Hat.”

Have you read any spatially appealing story lately that show the topic visually with a bit of flare…? Watch your visually alert readers jump onboard your storyline in ways that increase traffic when you add a few spatially packed tasks for their consideration.

To show spatial writing about the high arctic theme, here’s one scene from my incomplete novel called, Flight of the Raven. “Outside the kitchen window, her team of huskies barely moved. Their heads tucked against the drive of the wind. Their tails turned and curled like snow that swirled and circled around their feet. She stood watching their nocturnal wakefulness, and breathed in coffee aromas, from the warm cup cradled in her hands….”

If you can see my novel scene you have also seen me draw from spatial intelligence. Often hidden or unused by amateur writers, this intelligence allows a writer to project ideas on the back screens of the mind. It’s as though words appear from your spatial muse to paint your story ideas onto a screen or stage so that the reader can better see.

Here are a few spatial tips to rev up your next story for visually inclined readers:

1. Sketch – without using words - one main event in a friendship story which resulted in mutual benefits.
2. Design a backdrop and props for a state-of-the-art office in your home
3. Describe scenes a mentally challenged adult… might see as motivational or inspirational art in your home
4. Identify and detail fun traits you inherited from three relatives and illustrate how they show up in an ordinary day
5. Photograph scenes from a remote cabin and describe your reflections as they jumpstart change in one of your beliefs.

Any other ideas to use more spatial intelligence to paint and shape a good story out there…?