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[turps]

I've been having an interesting discussion over email lately, which led to a question I wanted to ask other people.

At night, or when I'm in the car or even just sitting when it's quiet, I tend to tell myself stories in my head. Nothing I'd ever write down, just things/people I like and think about. I do that with words and occasional images. So it's like a book with illustrations as opposed to say, watching a movie.

My question is. When you think, do you do so in words, pictures or some other way? Or maybe you don't do the story thing at all and think I'm a big old weirdo. In which case, feel free to smile and back away.

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[nopseud]

I do words and images, but it's like the words words come first. It's very like reading a book, actually -- when I read, I see the scenes very clearly, and when I'm telling myself a story in my head, or going over story scenes, I 'read' the words to myself and that generates the images. Which means that if I'm thinking about a character thinking about something, I have both the image of the character as they're thinking, and the image of what they're thinking about.

Really, I shouldn't be let out on the roads.

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Which means that if I'm thinking about a character thinking about something, I have both the image of the character as they're thinking, and the image of what they're thinking about.

That's very impressive. I'd imagine it also fits nicely with what you've said before, about being able to picture the whole of a story.

Really, I shouldn't be let out on the roads.

I'm sure you can manage three different thought processes at once :)