It could be that everything I've written has been through a different sensory lens than mine, although not in as extreme a way as Rachelle's. You just read my last completed work and told me it was the wettest book you'd ever read. I tend to think the whole story is infused in water. It's not one character hitting the reader over the head with it, but it really does infuse everything in it. So was that successful?

You should read Perfume. I stand by that as one of the most amazing pieces of writing, and anyone writing about a sensory-based character should check it out.

I have a character now who experiences things by the measure of heartbeats and breathing in a lot of cases. There's a slow level of focus that goes along with that, an alertness and an awareness I sure don't have in my everyday life. It's fun to write. I'm very method-actory when I write, and like to feel what my characters feel. If I can't feel it, then I can't convey it. I sure don't know how to do all the things all my characters can do, but I have to find some common ground with them in order to make them seem like real people. Once I do have the common ground, then it works.