[stylist] Writing process

Tue Jan 18 12:03:11 UTC 2011

I also prefer books to movies; in books, I can imagine what things look like and the eyes of my imagination are a lot better than my eyes of reality.

Shawn

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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
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I'm the same way with the Narnia cresw.  I imagined the children being a lot 
younger than the movies have them.  I much prefer a book to TV or movies. 
They kill the creativity.
Barbara

Through the sunny fields of yesterday
Echo voices of children now grown,
Their golden peals of laughter
Ring upon the ivied stone.
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From: Judith Bron
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 9:33 PM
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This whole thread reminds me of something very relevant in recent history.
The imagination is a powerful tool.  Kids who read the Harry Potter books
and then saw the movie were disappointed.  In their minds eye each character
had a face, a personality and attributes that came alive on film.  No longer
did Harry look one way and Dumbledor another.  Now they were defined in a
film in concrete ways.  Many kids preferred it when the characters were in
their minds.  My opinion is that as long as they were imaginary characters
they were attributed with all the attributes each reader wanted to give
them.  Then they saw them on the big screen.  Were their opinions wrong?
Were the people who casted them in the film wrong?  No one is wrong.
However it shows you that kids prefer letting their imaginations go wild as
opposed to seeing their imaginary characters given definite features and
characteristics on the silver screen.  Judith
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From: "Brad Dunse" <lists at braddunsemusic.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:15 PM
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> 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
>>>>From: Judith Bron<jbron at optonline.net>
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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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