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.

Comments

[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.