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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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[sperrywink]

My stories are usually fleshed out scenes with really sharp images for some sections and fuzzier for others. Dialogue too. Which is why when it happens for a story I am working on, I am now trying to take a pad and pen to bed so I can write down the dialogue bits or else I'll forget them.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I love that you get your dialogue like that. If I did that I'd have to go post at Nifty *g*

[sperrywink]

Heh. I'm sure Nifty would be greatly improved by it! ;-)

I actually think I get my best dialogue right before falling asleep, but then there is the struggle to remember it, which I fail at. A lot of my cm_exchange story was pulled from night-time story-telling to myself, but that is when I first started writing this stuff down.