[stylist] Writing process

Joe Orozco jsorozco at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 13:59:26 UTC 2011 

My image of Dumbledor was ruined! LOL  I prefer the wise old guy in my
mind's eye.

Joe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing 

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[mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judith Bron
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing process

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
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Dunse" <lists at braddunsemusic.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing process


> 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
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
>>To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>Cc: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
>>Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 6:03 PM
>>Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing process
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>>
>>>>Message: 15
>>>>Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:42:43 -0500
>>>>From: Judith Bron<jbron at optonline.net>
>>>>To: Writer's Division Mailing List<stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>>>Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing process
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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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