Does seeing the images influence how you write your own stories?
Thoughts and feelings?
Care to explain your opinions?
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Sometimes I do, but sometimes not. A lot of writers these days don’t write very descriptively, so it’s like reading a nonfiction book. As long as I know what’s going on in the scene it doesn’t matter; I’ll enjoy the book anyway. Reading goes faster when you don’t have a movie going on in your head simultaneously anyhow. ÂŻ\_(ď˘)_/ÂŻ
As for writing, it’s hard to conjure up images of settings, characters and scenes when first starting, but once I know just what’s going on and what time period it is, then yup!
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It is extremly rare for me to see images, and they are iften more still-life and not full of people the rare tikes I see anything. In fact its more of a mental map of an image an no image at all, like I can draw out the outline of a diamond in .y mi d, but there’s just black both inside and outside where lines would be, but Ive got the dimensions in mind.
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Yes.
Next question please 
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Yes XD I get very vivid images when reading or writing, like fully picturing scenes and characters in my mind
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Yes. I can see it all like an anime with multiple seasons in my head. But my fingers refuse to write it in the same quality as what’s in my brain. 
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Yep. It usually plays out as a movie.
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Yes, very vividly like a movie. Which is why I can’t stand it when writers don’t describe anything. Urgh. One of my biggest pet peeves. Like, help me figure what what I’m supposed to be imagining here. Evoke the senses and all that fun stuff.
Meanwhile, I go overboard on descriptions when I write my own stuff lol, because I see it all in my head.
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My stories always form from images, TBH. I tend to see it play out like a movie with environments and characters interacting across the screen. Might be why its sometimes hard for me to translate what I see in my head to the written word sometimes.
Often times I get seeds of ideas from dreams, which is getting harder as I get older and my brain gets more full to hold onto those visions. But many of my novels started with or got elements from dreams I’ve had in the past.
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I tend to flip flop with descriptives… at times I’m super sparse with them, and at others way too verbose. One of my favorite authors growing up (Andre Norton) was very good at describing just enough to set the scene, but leaving enough to the reader’s imagination that they could form their own mental images.
I’ve tried to emulate that, but don’t always do as well as I like.
I also tend to describe charactercentrically… and have had to work on environmental descriptions.
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I tend to get pretty clear visualizations!! I do also tend to read more of the heavy literary descriptive stories (and write in a similar style) so reading stories with such clear descriptions definitely makes it easier to visualize.
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When I write, or read, it plays out like a movie in my head. I can see everything happening very clearly. I’ve always been a very visual person though.
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It makes me happy that people are able to visualize when they write and when they read fiction.
I thought I was a special kind of weird, because reading wise I can’t visualize stories, but writing wise I am very vivid and very loud.
However, when I need to describe something, it’s challenging since I can’t get the right words out to describe things.
In my mind, things are too clear and hard to put a word on it.
So, yeah, I am a special type of weird.
I do see images.
It does influence my writing.
I tend to be descriptive when it comes to writing. I want to explain exactly what is going on. How the cave collapses. How the warriors rescue other warriors. What the moon staff looks like. What there is in the forest. What the village looks like. But all these, only in slow scenes, of course.
The only thing that I don’t often describe is what the rooms look like other than a mention of a wooden door here, a hard floor there. I don’t find rooms to be that important to a scene unless the character is interacting with it or it sets the era 
I also only see a vague image of the rooms in my head anyway.
As for reading, if I can’t imagine something while reading, it takes me a while to get into the book. As for rooms though, I also don’t tend to imagine rooms that often. If I do, it’s probably generic. Like a generic spooky attic or a generic bedroom. Unless I’m told what it looks like, that’s all I’m seeing.
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When writing? Most certainly!
I see a part play out in my mind, like a scene in a film/show… Then I write it as I have seen it play out in my minds eye…
I think that if you can see it in all its glory and colour in your mind, then you feel that it could be a real thing/place/world. And I guess (for me that is), that it becomes easier to then develop, and write down coherently grounded.
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I see it as a movie. I’ve always had a director’s eye/approach to things, it helps me to visualize. Doesn’t mean I go overboard on descriptions, it just allows me to picture a scene more accurately and write it out with more attention to immersion for the audience.
When I’m reading, it’s the same. I have a film reel going off in my head.
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I don’t really see anything when reading. I mostly see words. 
But there are times when I can imagine what a scene might look like, but it’s mostly a picture—not a movie. And it’s not reoccurring. It mostly happens when something is detailed enough that I feel a small sense of immersion. However, it definitely helps when I see fan art or art that’s a part of the novel itself (like if the author has a few pages of character appearances or whatnot). I’ll sometimes assign actors or other celebrities to a specific character if it feels like it’d fit them. Like I was recently reading the Song of Achilles and it felt that Matt Rife might fit the description of Achilles.
But when it comes to writing, it’s different. I see it in my head like a movie which I find ironic. A part of this may stem from my love of filmmaking and film itself because when I write, I use narration sometimes as a camera, like trying to get all the good angles, you know? And I hope that it helps readers see it as if they are there or watching it like a movie.
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