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NTs: do you think in pictures or words?
I am NT and I think in words (or mostly in words) 33%  33%  [ 7 ]
I am NT and I think in pictures (or mostly in pictures) 24%  24%  [ 5 ]
I am on the spectrum (or I suspect I am on it) and would like to see the results of the poll 43%  43%  [ 9 ]
Total votes : 21

orchidee
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21 Jul 2011, 1:15 pm

Wreck-Gar wrote:
Hi. Interesting post. I am actually a writer (unpublished as of yet.)

And yes, my characters think in words. It never even occurred to me to write it another way. Not sure how that would be done. "In his mind, John saw a picture of a big red apple." Maybe?


I think it's really hard to write characters' thoughts as anything BUT words in novels, because, I mean... we're using words - it's all we've got. In a movie it's far easier to show thoughts as images.

Also, when I write, I see my story as images like a movie (the same way that I picture the story when I'm reading a novel). All I have to do, then, is write down what I see, which is sometimes harder than it sounds. :)



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22 Jul 2011, 5:03 pm

orchidee wrote:
I think it's really hard to write characters' thoughts as anything BUT words in novels, because, I mean... we're using words - it's all we've got. In a movie it's far easier to show thoughts as images.


Yes, I agree with this. When I try to write stories (key word=try!--I'm not very creative), I often will use words for the thoughts simply because, as you've said, that's all there is to work with. As I am writing out these thoughts, I picture the character visualizing the thoughts though, but I suppose a reader would not pick up on that.


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