Such talents vary; for example I can describe every room in my house and those at work in extreme detail. Places I go to at intervals (say once a month to a fri

Such talents vary; for example I can describe every room in my house and those at work in extreme detail. Places I go to at intervals (say once a month to a friends house) I can describe pretty accurately. And places I've visited once but in the last month or so I can pull up a pretty good image of. You find this a very common factor in many writers; particularly ye-olde ones (where keeping and searching notes was not as easy as now) whereby they would have a detailed and vivid scene in their mind - which was easier to remember.