[stylist] Writing process

Donna Hill penatwork at epix.net
Tue Jan 18 15:54:30 UTC 2011 

Brad and all,
I have RP and I remember in 7th grade seeing a picture in a book. It was 
very high contrast black and white. My mind made it into a rather 
grizzley human face. It was actually two penguins. *grin*
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On 1/17/2011 10:15 PM, Brad Dunse wrote:
> 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
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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
>>>>
>>>> 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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