This is terrific. So many ideas so well developed. Thank you.
I call on words; I name things on purpose when I notice them. Otherwise I have no sensation of thinking at all except when I am writing. Then the words are there, flowing into my fingers. I let them come without composing them. If I reread them and they aren't right, I let them flow again until they what goes in puzzle. My sentences are the same as they were in seventh grade, for better for worse. It is so mysterious how this works. I had this exact discussion with my writers reading group recently, and we were all different.
This is just fascinating—thank you for sharing! I am pretty jealous of your flowing words--I have never had an experience like that. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the writers' group to learn more about how other writers think. My spouse and I could not be more different in most ways of thinking and expressing, but when I asked him, he reported similar wordless, visual, abstract interior thoughts to mine.
Severance still has me stumped. As does Simone de Beauvoir. Which can only mean one thing. You would never want to switch brains with me. This is full on memoir, Karen. Really well done.
Somehow I answered this and my comment is gone. Or am I just losing my ability to find it, in the aftermath of a very very bad night when thinking was obliterated by an endless rapid violent cycle of images in my head.
This is terrific. So many ideas so well developed. Thank you.
I call on words; I name things on purpose when I notice them. Otherwise I have no sensation of thinking at all except when I am writing. Then the words are there, flowing into my fingers. I let them come without composing them. If I reread them and they aren't right, I let them flow again until they what goes in puzzle. My sentences are the same as they were in seventh grade, for better for worse. It is so mysterious how this works. I had this exact discussion with my writers reading group recently, and we were all different.
Really love reading this from you, AE!
This is just fascinating—thank you for sharing! I am pretty jealous of your flowing words--I have never had an experience like that. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the writers' group to learn more about how other writers think. My spouse and I could not be more different in most ways of thinking and expressing, but when I asked him, he reported similar wordless, visual, abstract interior thoughts to mine.
Loved moveable mental type
Severance still has me stumped. As does Simone de Beauvoir. Which can only mean one thing. You would never want to switch brains with me. This is full on memoir, Karen. Really well done.
Thank you, Beth -- your comment makes me feel all 🥰 But how do you think, in words or in something else?
Somehow I answered this and my comment is gone. Or am I just losing my ability to find it, in the aftermath of a very very bad night when thinking was obliterated by an endless rapid violent cycle of images in my head.
Maybe the comment didn’t post? I’d never saw it just the one about severance.