tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post7073260738172863490..comments2024-03-04T13:30:37.333-08:00Comments on Mark Lawrence: Have you got the sense to be a writer?Mark Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-81293134420915866962015-04-06T08:25:52.331-07:002015-04-06T08:25:52.331-07:00Hello, I just came here from another user's co...Hello, I just came here from another user's comment of this, on Wattpad. I was curious to see what this was about.<br /><br />I often wonder, at what point in any writer's life, a television appeared, or what part it has played in their life as I myself, did a lot of reading growing up but also a lot of movie watching. I read my works aloud, all the time. I feel I have a screenwriter sense. I'm not sure how that compares to what you do.<br /><br />I just read a large chunk of Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" last night. I was curious as to what it was about. And though I love Anne's descriptions--I don't know what you would call them as writing, perhaps lyrical prose--I was mainly struck by the voice of Louis and his emotional journey. I seem to find the people in a room when I write and write down their emotional exchange, as it arrives.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />HeatherHeatherhttp://www.wattpad.com/user/roo3storynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-24673050942329417062015-03-31T07:33:47.073-07:002015-03-31T07:33:47.073-07:00:) yes.:) yes.Mark Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-22021488088819943892015-03-31T07:30:05.476-07:002015-03-31T07:30:05.476-07:00Hi Mark,
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( ...Hi Mark,<br /><br />If you know, how looks czech cover ..<br />( http://www.oblibeneknihy.cz/_obchody/oblibeneknihy.shop5.cz/prilohy/379/trnovy-princ-roztristena-rise-1-0.jpg.big.jpg )<br />WHO IS ROBIN HOOB?<br /><br />Is it Robin Hobb?<br /><br />Thx.<br /><br />Q.eehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844337395263084253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-66054160394573127662015-03-30T17:31:23.944-07:002015-03-30T17:31:23.944-07:00An interesting post!
When I read a novel, I '...An interesting post!<br /><br />When I read a novel, I 'see' the events of the story in my minds eyes. It's not like a movie exactly but an accompanying series of images - not the 'complex, shifting mass of associations, sprinkled with flashes of different views and images' - but if I am being told the character is on a white mare, I see in my minds eye a white horse. <br /><br />It's the same when I write. I build the words and the image (if I am describing a stage or a character) in my mind at the same time. Never is there one without the other and the image is usually exactly what I am describing (at least I hope I am describing well enough that the reader will see it - if after there own fashion).<br /> <br />Listening to audio books is different. I can only listen to them if I am 'doing' something. Walking, driving, playing a pc game that doesn't require a lot concentration. I can't just sit there and listen. My eyes need to be occupied too (and if I close them I will fall asleep).<br /><br />My experience listening to an audio book is very different to reading. The same types of images my mind builds when seeing words on a page doesn't happen, but I often pick up nuances in characterisation and interaction that I might have missed in the reading. For example, I can't <i>read</i> Peter F. Hamilton, but I love his books on audio. LOVE them.<br /><br />I love Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' but have rarely laughed in amusement when reading dialogue between characters. Listening to it on audio find I am laughing out loud at parts and 'seeing' things very differently.MarkinOzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13617963115213049899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-81404329729036160642015-03-29T14:28:07.456-07:002015-03-29T14:28:07.456-07:00This is so interesting. I have a vivid imagination...This is so interesting. I have a vivid imagination so I do write things as I picture them in my mind's eye. So for me, describing characters and places are straightforward, but describing action scenes are more of a chore - because I spend so much time writing every expression and gesture as I see it in my mind, that it becomes slow-paced and boring.<br /><br />I don't think it's necessary to be able to 'see' it in your minds eye to be able to write well about it.Ashana Lianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05710938893525557551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-26973295818171215912015-03-29T09:01:43.787-07:002015-03-29T09:01:43.787-07:00I for one don't just dictate a mental movie wh...I for one don't just dictate a mental movie when I write. I'm constantly shuttling between some tangible imagining, be it an image or a sound or what have you, a character's reactions or ruminations, the editorial portion of my brain that is scrambling for the proper vocabulary to express the image or action, and the meta-editor that is keeping an eye on where the writing task at hand fits in the greater whole of the project.<br /><br />I've never really thought about the process in quite that way before, actually. It sort of makes me feel exhausted to contemplate :)Michael McClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14708067144914238641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-56252796058244345842015-03-28T16:52:46.400-07:002015-03-28T16:52:46.400-07:00I can't say I don't like audio books as I&...I can't say I don't like audio books as I've never tried them. They just don't appeal to me - sometimes I wish they did because it would be great to use some of the time I use doing things like gardening - listening to a book - two birds with one stone, etc, but, I think I would find it slightly annoying having somebody else's voice in my head with their slant on things instead of mine. I also think my attention would wander. I don't think of myself as being unable to concentrate but for me if I put my earphones in it's to listen to music - where I don't have to concentrate - and just chill out. <br />Plus, there's something about the written word and the composition in front of you on the page - I don't know but it just doesn't feel the same.<br />Lynn :D<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-48256613426334707752015-03-28T10:45:40.216-07:002015-03-28T10:45:40.216-07:00I'm totally with you about audiobooks. They do...I'm totally with you about audiobooks. They don't work for me.<br /><br />For me it varies. Some scenes I see very clearly in my imagination (and then have a bloody damn time to find the right words to get them onto the page), in other cases I have a vague idea which comes alive in the actual writing of the scene. One should think these scenes are easier to write, but they tend to maeander and I have to take the scissors to them in the revision. And then there are the scenes some sneaky character snatches up and runs away with in an unplanned direction. Or down the memory lane, and I'll have to deal with infodumpy musings / flashbacks. In short, it's never easy. :-)<br /><br />I write historical fiction and I do like to visit places about which I write; it helps with both sort of scenes to have an image or at least an impression of a place. Sometimes I get images - rarely scenes, more like flashes - when I visit a place, and I know I'll need to use the setting in one of my NiPs. One novel even started out that way, though mostly my inspiration is triggered by historical events. Having a history blog is not good for keeping plotbunnies away. ;-)<br /><br />I take a lot of photographs and while it is more important to me to create an <i>atmosphere</i> on the page than a list of features, they sometimes help with a description. Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-60947346936130909402015-03-28T09:04:50.091-07:002015-03-28T09:04:50.091-07:00"I know people who say (& I have no reaso..."I know people who say (& I have no reason to doubt them) that, if I ask them to visualise a horse see a horse, where I see manes, fields, hooves, horseshoes, a muscular flank beneath a glossy hide ... nothing static, glimpses, flux." Ah, but you are seeing probably the very same thing the other person is seeing, but you have the facility of words to describe the attendant images that make the horse, while others process them together and call it "horse".<br /><br />In other words, you've the soul of a poet.Scott Odenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917296669418463518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-48238954678305596152015-03-28T08:35:13.365-07:002015-03-28T08:35:13.365-07:00I really liked reading this, because I think that&...I really liked reading this, because I think that's how I work too.<br />You said "I can't listen to my audiobooks. It makes me uncomfortable. In general I find when I listen to writing read aloud, even by experts, it has far less impact on me than when I read it from the page. ". I am this. Maybe even more, because I simply disconnect - it's not a question of not having impact, I don't really hear them, words stop meaning anything and simply become background noise.<br />And not just with audiobooks, it's anything written down that other people try reading aloud to me (articles from newspapers, old letters, book blurbs, etc). I have to pick up the piece and read it myself for things to make sense.<br />That's why I don't get it when people say they 'read a book', when in reality they listened to the audiobook: the two activities sit in such complete opposite ends of the spectrum, that I see zero connection between them.<br /><br />And your ideas about why people like your prose are very interesting, because whenever I talk about your books to others, the way I describe the way you write is "Mark makes art with words" :)<br />Beatriznoreply@blogger.com