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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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[thelemic.livejournal.com]

I mostly think in words. I used to walk around outside telling myself stories out loud--that gets some weird looks, but it helped me think of plenty. Dialogue, for one, sounds better if you can tell if it would be awkward to say or not, you know?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see how telling yourself stories out loud would get weird looks, but I can also see how helpful it would be.

I tend to speak dialogue out loud if it doesn't seem to be flowing right. Which yeah, a female english woman speaking the words of amercian males makes for the laughs.