As it so happens, this is something I've been pondering -- largely because I find myself unable to write anyting as of late.
This may possible sound incredibly stupid, or snooty, but when I write, I'm not really writing words. I'm writing with words, but what I'm writing is images. My head just gets to be this mass of pictures, accompanied sometimes by lines that, to me, tint the images.
I know what's the the character's heads when I'm writing, most of the time, because the scenes that I see are skewed by what they're thinking. It's part of why my stories tend to be broken down into smaller section. It's possible that my recent inability to say anything out right is also a factor of this -- I write around things now, and I can't make myself write something like "he was angry" any more.
When I look back at my older work, I can see that I used to write words -- I constructed my stories just writing text. I like to think that my writing ability has increased (I've gone from a scarily incompetent 15 year old to a semi-literate 19 year old), and I think my newer stories tend to be much heavier on imagery.
I've always suspected I was wired differently than other people. *G*
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Date: 2005-06-13 05:44 am (UTC)This may possible sound incredibly stupid, or snooty, but when I write, I'm not really writing words. I'm writing with words, but what I'm writing is images. My head just gets to be this mass of pictures, accompanied sometimes by lines that, to me, tint the images.
I know what's the the character's heads when I'm writing, most of the time, because the scenes that I see are skewed by what they're thinking. It's part of why my stories tend to be broken down into smaller section. It's possible that my recent inability to say anything out right is also a factor of this -- I write around things now, and I can't make myself write something like "he was angry" any more.
When I look back at my older work, I can see that I used to write words -- I constructed my stories just writing text. I like to think that my writing ability has increased (I've gone from a scarily incompetent 15 year old to a semi-literate 19 year old), and I think my newer stories tend to be much heavier on imagery.
I've always suspected I was wired differently than other people. *G*