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Literal NPC with no mind's eye wants to be a fiction writer

https://old.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/10bvwyq/i_have_total_aphantasia_which_means_my_minds_eye

								

								

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? :marseyblind:

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.


Choose actual photos for your scenes. Describe the photos :marseyneat:

Some kinda reverse midjourney human being


Well that’s simple. Write what you would want to read. If setting isn’t that important to you then just give an overview. If you try and write detailed descriptions of things you’ll find it boring, it’ll sound pretentious and you’ll lose your own uniqueness, which is what people want to read. Focus on whatever you find interesting and fun.

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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.

You can also make places seem even more inviting by adding cooking smells to your description, if appropriate. :marseysnappyautism:

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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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810021001690?via%3Dihub

Guys check out this study

>Results

>To examine the prevalence of aphantasia in our sample, we again divided participants into those with and without aphantasia. Within our total cohort (N = 502), there were 18 participants (8 female, 10 male; M age = 36.89, SD = 15.30) scoring in the aphantasia range of 16–32 (M = 24.44, SD = 5.48), giving an overall aphantasia prevalence of 3.6% (95% CI [2.28, 5.60]). In addition to these individuals classified as aphantasic there were 484 people (200 female, 282 male, 2 another gender; M

3.6% of the population (mostly women) cannot see in their minds eye

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