I have total aphantasia, which means my minds eye is dark. I have 0 senses up in my brains. Any tips for writing detailed scenes without the senses?
I’ve always wanted to write, but always struggled writing detail into the story. I love writing stories themselves, but loathe the detail in creating a scene around the story. I think I don’t focus on it because it does absolutely nothing for me. Even when I read books, I basically gloss over the setting. I just need to know an overview of the setting and I’ll be good.
As usual, the comments give moderately decent, superficial advice while eluding the fundamental problem: You can't describe a scene if you can't imagine one.
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Go through published books and try to identify what kind of tone scenes have (e.g. scary, sad, cosy) and write down how they're described. Make a list of recurring details and use them when you want to generate that effect.
Here are some that I've noticed:
Warmth normally seems positive and safe. E.g. a fire crackling in the hearth, or a steaming mug of hot chocolate.
Beep boop. It appears the organic beings are drawn to the olfactory sensations correlated with the preparation of food. I shall investigate further.
R/writing is the absolute worst hobby/artistic sub. Imagine if half of the music sub posts were about being tone-deaf or deaf-deaf and everyone was just sucking each other off about how valid that is. Or talking about how you don't need to listen to music to be a musician.
Also check out my previous post, in which an neurodivergent train wants to be a writer despite being completely unable to concentrate on reading:
https://rdrama.net/post/139302/marseybrainlet-giga-r-slur-asks-if-she
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You can use all the fancy-sounding $10 words you want but I still refuse to believe that some people don't have an inner monologue.
They're either lying for attention or they don't understand what people mean by "inner monologue."
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Yeah, I've never understood how people can't have an inner monologue.
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How do you plan anything without an inner monologue?
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I wonder how cavemen did it before they invented language. Did they just think in a series of ungas and bungas?
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Maybe images?
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Then what the frick went on in the heads of the ones with this condition? They must have been literal npcs
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they got hit with rocks lol
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What makes you think that people without an inner monologue plan things?
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My guess is it's like how some people count with fingers while others in their head.
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Same with "asexuals"
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"Asexuals" are ridiculously easy lays once you crack the technique because they're just foids but without any of the defences developed by interaction with moids like me
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