[stylist] Writing process

Tue Jan 18 03:15:33 UTC 2011

When I listen to audio books or dramas, I find I always see  either a 
created realistic image of the person, or a animated cartoon  version 
of that image. Its funny because for people I've never seen, post 
blindness, I know exactly what they look like in my mind. It would be 
curious to see how accurate my creative imaging is. I think those 
images are based off of voice quality, behaviors, tone, 
pronunciations, and etc. I might  mix the character istics of two 
people  into one because one person has qualities of both people I 
had known when I could see. That plus any descriptions I pick up from 
other's. All these things help me work out scenes in my mind of 
people and what they are described as doing in the book. Somewhat 
related to being able to just think of things and see them is when I 
could drive, often times long road trips were mindless things and you 
get to thinking of things. I could drive and see what I was thinking 
of, totally not "seeing" the road, only yet I was aware and able 
to  navigate. Granted if something were to occur, someone put their 
brakes on, was turning, etc.,  I'd then be focused on the road again. 
The mind's eye is very powerful. Those with RP and experienced the 
early affects of it will likely attest to seeing, for example, a 
empty paneled wall and totally miss the clock hanging there.  And 
even though the clock is missed, there isn't a blank spot there,  but 
the mind fills in paneling right over the top because  it "thinks" it 
ought be there. So for people to "think" and "see" according to what 
they think, is very possible.

Brad

On 1/17/2011  05:46 PM Judith Bron said...
>Everyone's brain incorporates information differently.  That's why 
>we're getting so many different descriptions of the information in 
>our brains. Think of it.  Each letter has one shape.  We've gone off 
>describing the colors it comes in and in some cases the background 
>it appears on.  We talk about how we perceive someone's 
>characters.  Many descriptions differ. There is no right and wrong, 
>just human perceptions.  Judith
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>>Bridgit and Judith,
>>I just realized that one place I still visualize print is right 
>>here on the computer. I've never gone for a letter and seen it in 
>>Braille while typing. Hmm.
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>>On 1/17/2011 5:17 PM, Bridgit Pollpeter wrote:
>>>Judith,
>>>
>>>This is true.  When I first learned Braille, I started visualizing the
>>>Braille characters instead of the print.  It was a weird phenomonon for
>>>me since I had read print for for about 16 years up to that point.  Even
>>>when typing on a keyboard, my first visual was the Braille character.
>>>
>>>Bridgit
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>>>Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:42:43 -0500
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>>>Jim and all, I was thinking about this last night.  When reading hard
>>>copy
>>>and you see "Boy" your eyes recognize it immediately and your brain
>>>tells
>>>you "boy".  My assumption is that when reading braille and you feel the
>>>letters "Boy" your brain tells you the same thing.  A braille reader
>>>once
>>>told me that when he thinks about the spelling of words he "visualizes"
>>>the
>>>braille letters.  Just a thought, Judith
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