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Isn't this what every fiction writer does? (Which doesn't make it any less fascinating)

• vidarh 5y ago
  No? Maybe some do, but as someone with aphantasia (I don't see things in my "minds eye" at all, and until a couple of years ago I had no idea people did outside of dreams - I assumed people spoke metaphorically) and who has written two novels and is working in my third, my writing process bears no resemblance to what the article describes. It's far more detached. Maybe I'm an abberration in terms of how I write, but I don't think I'm that much of one. Most writers I interact with seems to spend much more time than you'd expect if they just played out a fantasy and wrote about it.