I don't know if you read C.E. Murphy's blog at all, but she talks about how she completely does not visualize, in her mind. She spent a lot of her life not realizing some people find instructions like "Take a deep breath and imagine the sea..." practicable.
She works really hard to give visual cues in her writing, and while I wouldn't say it's something that stands out about her books, I don't find it hard to see her characters or feel the settings. It's kind of amazing...
I bet you are able to smell just fine. You just don't process the information as important. And an ear for words is nothing to sneeze at: it means you hear the way people talk, the way words jingle together.
There are plenty of writers who are missing out on at least *my* patronage because they have a brass ear when it comes to cadence of words and sentences, whereas I don't TALK without composing to some degree. I can't respect prose without even a small hint of music, be it rap stucatto or canon fluid.
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Re: he is so much <3
Date: 2009-08-31 10:36 pm (UTC)She works really hard to give visual cues in her writing, and while I wouldn't say it's something that stands out about her books, I don't find it hard to see her characters or feel the settings. It's kind of amazing...
I bet you are able to smell just fine. You just don't process the information as important. And an ear for words is nothing to sneeze at: it means you hear the way people talk, the way words jingle together.
There are plenty of writers who are missing out on at least *my* patronage because they have a brass ear when it comes to cadence of words and sentences, whereas I don't TALK without composing to some degree. I can't respect prose without even a small hint of music, be it rap stucatto or canon fluid.