No no, I know you were joking, I wasn't referring to you exactly, although I did directly quote you. I took advantage of you to make a precedence for how the public is still ignorant of the peculiarities of mental illness. I'm sorry that you love people affected by it and for misrepresenting your statements.
No problem. We agree, and I support your statements about mental illness and education, and I support any effort to spread the truth about such matters! (I'm sort of glad now, that I made the joke, if only to provide the opening for what you stated!) Keep up the good work! Charlie
basically he made an example out of you ok alright sorry that was a tad bit rude. i jest! no hard feelings!
I don't talk to my characters. But I mumble my sentences out loud as I write to hear how they sound...
Always. It's really important when it comes to the dialogue. And when I try to describe, I always "dream" and when it comes to action, I act it all by myself. Kind of weird, but gives me a better picture on how to put it into words.
Not in the same way as the OP, but yeah. I talk to myself all the time. I'll be walking down the streets having enntire conversations between multiple characters, eneacting it in my head and developing characters as I go. I will do this for ages before ever starting a story. I like to know my characters very well before I write them, and I do that in my head and by talking to myself. Although I swear most of the people who see me, think I'm insane...and now y'all probably do too....
I had to ask myself before realising. Normally I just imagine my characters in different situations and might even think about it during the day when I'm not writing, so I don't talk to them, but they follow me around and they may even talk to me and I might imagine a response, but that's as far as it'd go, normally it's just my character interacting with other characters.
Yes i also talk to myself, have conversations with myself and now and then when i forget myself i have the tendancy to argue with myself, much to the amusement of my cat.
I talk to my charicters out loud mainly when i am about to put a twist in its like someone is there going dont forget the why when where how what... but than i may belong in an asylum...
Although I don't "talk to my characters," sometimes (last night) I'm lying in bed, and parts of my book go through my head and I think of new approaches to various scenes (including dialogue...which could be thought of as me "hearing them talking.") They don't "talk to me" in the sense that they say, "Hey, Charlie...what are you doing lying in bed thinking about me?" They talk to each other (as they would in the scene in my book) but of course, they're all "me" since none of them really exist...so in that sense, every time one of them talks, it's me talking to me, that is, a character in my imagination talking to another character in my imagination. Charlie
Yes, I talk to myself. Only way to guarantee intelligent conversation XD In seriousness, though, I sometimes will speak out the dialogues I've written to see if they have a natural feel to them. Of course, I will sometimes do this on the bus, walking through a grocery store, etc.... so I do get lots of odd looks
Sure, I talk to myself all the time. Speaking out lout is a great way to focus, and it helps organize your thoughts, because you can't skimp on structure by using visual shortcuts. And it's even usually about writing... though not always.
