I very definitely have an "inner voice" -- my thoughts are very linguistic, and with a little effort I can shift the language I think in to the extent that I still recall any of the foreign languages I've learned. However, my inner voice seems to have ADHD sometimes, especially the more tired I get, because I will find myself trying to think about a given topic and suddenly the sentence forming inside my head screeches to a halt and a different sentence shoots off in its own direction.
Insofar as writing is concerned, I've always been very good a dialogue. I just know what sounds like a real person talking, and what differentiates the voices of different people. I had that before I knew I wanted to write, and was one of the skills that surprised my professors at college when I entered the Creative Writing program. (I still treasure the moment when one of my instructors told me I wrote more believable women and women's dialogue than some of the girls in the workshop.) There is almost certainly a connection.
At the same time I have a very visual aspect to my thoughts -- again where the writing is concerned, a lot of DW comes out of almost cinematic images that burst forth, fully-formed, in my mind. I've mentioned in several places how I'd had DW2's climax planned out for years before I actually wrote it -- it was based around a very visual image of Doug vs. Quincy in a rain-soaked office, a shattered window to one side, and lightning crackling both inside and out. The climax of DW5 was very much the same, and dates back to before Chris joining me on it -- the seal of Solomon ritual, the pillars of light, the connections spanning between Doug and Marller, all that was a mental image that I merely described (and embellished a bit).
Insofar as writing is concerned, I've always been very good a dialogue. I just know what sounds like a real person talking, and what differentiates the voices of different people. I had that before I knew I wanted to write, and was one of the skills that surprised my professors at college when I entered the Creative Writing program. (I still treasure the moment when one of my instructors told me I wrote more believable women and women's dialogue than some of the girls in the workshop.) There is almost certainly a connection.
At the same time I have a very visual aspect to my thoughts -- again where the writing is concerned, a lot of DW comes out of almost cinematic images that burst forth, fully-formed, in my mind. I've mentioned in several places how I'd had DW2's climax planned out for years before I actually wrote it -- it was based around a very visual image of Doug vs. Quincy in a rain-soaked office, a shattered window to one side, and lightning crackling both inside and out. The climax of DW5 was very much the same, and dates back to before Chris joining me on it -- the seal of Solomon ritual, the pillars of light, the connections spanning between Doug and Marller, all that was a mental image that I merely described (and embellished a bit).
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....