Hmm, had a comment all typed out, and then you edited the entry and LJ blew up. Let's try again.
Ooops. Sorry.
can you see moving pictures in your mind when you imagine a scene? Like, really moving pictures, like 24 frames per second videos.
Yes, that's exactly what I see. And I hear the dialogue being spoken, too (or crickets chirping, car horns, etc.). Very occasionally, I also get touch-o-vision or smell-o-vision, but that's rare. It's gotten to the point where I see camera angles and movement. To take a completely random example pulled out of my bookcase...from a story in an anthology called "Dragon Fantastic": "Its body glowed a rich mahogany red, while the crest of spikes that ran the length of its neck and back were copper-colored in the sunlight." When I read that, the word "ran" translates into me (or the camera in my mind) actually panning down the dragon's back along the row of spikes.
Because I just realized this past year that I can't, and I was wondering what other people see.
Really? Wow. What do you see, then--words? Just vague still images?
I usually get inspired by plot first, or at least a snippet of action, despite my severe anti-plot writing tendencies.
Bwah! I'd never have expected that.
Of course, I'm horrible at coming up with initial ideas, and it doesn't happen by itself very often, so I'm not drawing on a huge pool of writing experience here.
Well, yeah, join the club. That reminds me, I should write some samples for Advanced Fiction while I have time...
Setting can also work for me occasionally, but not to the crazy extremes you seem to take it to. : )
Dude, I cannot go for a fifteen-minute car ride without seeing about six different places I'd like to set a story. It's kind of ridiculous.
When I'm reading, the writing style outweighs every other aspect. I don't care what's happening to whom, if it's written in a way that's annoying, or hard to follow, or just distracting from the story, I tend to want to throw the book across the room.
Hear hear!
Yes, I'm talking to *you*, Woolfe, please go die now.
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Date: 2005-07-04 12:23 am (UTC)Ooops. Sorry.
can you see moving pictures in your mind when you imagine a scene? Like, really moving pictures, like 24 frames per second videos.
Yes, that's exactly what I see. And I hear the dialogue being spoken, too (or crickets chirping, car horns, etc.). Very occasionally, I also get touch-o-vision or smell-o-vision, but that's rare. It's gotten to the point where I see camera angles and movement. To take a completely random example pulled out of my bookcase...from a story in an anthology called "Dragon Fantastic": "Its body glowed a rich mahogany red, while the crest of spikes that ran the length of its neck and back were copper-colored in the sunlight." When I read that, the word "ran" translates into me (or the camera in my mind) actually panning down the dragon's back along the row of spikes.
Because I just realized this past year that I can't, and I was wondering what other people see.
Really? Wow. What do you see, then--words? Just vague still images?
I usually get inspired by plot first, or at least a snippet of action, despite my severe anti-plot writing tendencies.
Bwah! I'd never have expected that.
Of course, I'm horrible at coming up with initial ideas, and it doesn't happen by itself very often, so I'm not drawing on a huge pool of writing experience here.
Well, yeah, join the club. That reminds me, I should write some samples for Advanced Fiction while I have time...
Setting can also work for me occasionally, but not to the crazy extremes you seem to take it to. : )
Dude, I cannot go for a fifteen-minute car ride without seeing about six different places I'd like to set a story. It's kind of ridiculous.
When I'm reading, the writing style outweighs every other aspect. I don't care what's happening to whom, if it's written in a way that's annoying, or hard to follow, or just distracting from the story, I tend to want to throw the book across the room.
Hear hear!
Yes, I'm talking to *you*, Woolfe, please go die now.
Oh, has somebody started Mrs. Dalloway?