By way of experiment...

[rabidsamfan]

I'm going to try posting and then adding a line or two at a time. Something doesn't like me much at the moment.

Can't remember if I posted about this before, but I got reminded of it during the great Internet Isn't In Interval.

A while ago, I was reading ozarques journal and she was mentioning the fact that people who aren't sight oriented use language differently. A sight-oriented person might "see the differences" between two things while a touch oriented person might "feel the gap" between the same things.

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[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

rats. Can't edit and it won't even let me delete...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Have to do this the hard way:

Seeing as how the bane of my writing is overuse of the words "look" "see" and "watch" (because I am so very very sight oriented) I sat down to try to write a scene from the point of view (!) of a character who was more attuned to smell and touch than sight. I ended up picking a character from Emergency! and while the story still hasn't worked out to having a plot, it was still good exercise.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

See if you think this works over at googledocs:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d4pccjp_188gvhv36

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting exercise. I also have trouble with 'look', 'see' and 'watch', although that may be because I visualise things clearly and can put the visions into words rather than because sight is my dominant sense. I would have said that smell is most important to me; many of my strongest early memories centre around how things smell. I'm not sure if I could write a story that favoured smell. That would be difficult. In a way, I translate the smells into sight.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It is interesting, and hard! Because your characters are still looking and seeing, they just aren't thinking in visual terms. I did my best to avoid "seemed" without tactile confirmation, or "appeared" too.

And reading it again, I see I still managed to talk about a "glow" with the watch.

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

That's interesting! :D

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

And hard! Try it, and see... er... try it and you'll find out that is isn't the easiest concept to grasp.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

This is an excellent exercise. *contemplstes trying it myself*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It was harder than I expected. (Almost wrote "it was harder than it looks"...) But I think it made me use descriptions I would have missed otherwise.