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May. 28th, 2019 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariA few weeks ago, I posted that meme about whether you hear voices narrating your life. I've since become kind of suspicious of the "Only creative or traumatized people get that voice" as EVERYONE said they had that voice.
But something someone said surprised me. When they'd read a book...they DIDN'T imagine the imagery in the book. And my jaw dropped because...well...I thought everyone read that way!
When I read a book, I don't imagine (or as another person said "vividly Hallucinate") the imagery in it. Instead, what I experience is "hearing the story." Like someone is telling it to me in an audiobook format. Just with more that one narrator/reader depending on the characters in the book.
I'd never realized that was not the norm, and it explains why I prefer movies and TV for entertainment (I'm not much of a reader anymore), and why my writing strengths are dialogue, scriptwriting and comics. It's also why Genevieve is VERY hard for me to write - I don't have a lot of faith in my ability to "Describe" a story, as much as describe a set, or write reams of dialogue (which I think I'm good at).
As Liz and Naomi mentioned last night - I'm not so much a writer as I'm a storyteller.
But something someone said surprised me. When they'd read a book...they DIDN'T imagine the imagery in the book. And my jaw dropped because...well...I thought everyone read that way!
When I read a book, I don't imagine (or as another person said "vividly Hallucinate") the imagery in it. Instead, what I experience is "hearing the story." Like someone is telling it to me in an audiobook format. Just with more that one narrator/reader depending on the characters in the book.
I'd never realized that was not the norm, and it explains why I prefer movies and TV for entertainment (I'm not much of a reader anymore), and why my writing strengths are dialogue, scriptwriting and comics. It's also why Genevieve is VERY hard for me to write - I don't have a lot of faith in my ability to "Describe" a story, as much as describe a set, or write reams of dialogue (which I think I'm good at).
As Liz and Naomi mentioned last night - I'm not so much a writer as I'm a storyteller.
