--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pure "Maharishi sez" nonsense.
BWAHAHAHA!!!! Has ZERO to do with Maharishi, of course. I knew all this long before I ever encountered MMY, nor have I ever heard him talk about what the process of writing involves. > Someday you should learn that not everyone has > the same limitations you impose on yourself. Nor, of course, is what I'm talking about a *limitation*--to the contrary. > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure how any > > > > > > composer could write any music down without first > > > > > > hearing it in his/her head, any more than a writer > > > > > > writes without first hearing the words in his/her > > > > > > head. ... > > > > > > > > > > Just like writers have different ways of writing so > > > > > do musicians have different ways of composing. > > > > > > > > Yeah, what he said. Just FYI, writers who have to > > > > hear the words in their head before writing them > > > > down are the counterpart of "mouth readers" when > > > > reading. Slows you down and is definitely not > > > > necessary, except maybe for poetry and to get a > > > > strong feel for dialogue. Sometimes the process > > > > is concept --> language, without an intervening > > > > stop at speech. > > > > > > > > I know, I know...somebody's going to come running > > > > in and say something like, "...also without a stop > > > > at thinking," which is possible, but not my point. :-) > > > > I'm just making the point that the idea of the usual > > > > progression as concept --> "hearing" it in your > > > > head --> paper is not always true. Many writers > > > > skip the middle step entirely. > > > > > > Just because this subject interests me, here's a > > > followup. I would bet that programmers can identify > > > with what I'm saying. You read a spec and get the > > > concept of the thing that has to be expressed in > > > code, and the code just comes out. I would bet that > > > most programmers don't pause to put the code that > > > they're writing into audible words and sound them > > > out in their head. Right, programmers? > > > > Of course they don't. > > > > > Well, it's the same thing when programming English, > > > or any other language. Once you have the syntax > > > down, > > > > The syntax, once you've mastered it, "lives" in the > > sense of hearing, just as it does with writing. > > > > you can go straight from concept to descrip- > > > tion of that concept on paper, without ever hear- > > > ing the sounds in one's head. I would imagine the > > > same thing is true for mathematicians who have the > > > syntax of math down pat, and for physicists who have > > > the syntax of physics down pat. Sounding things out > > > in one's head is an unnecessary step that can slow > > > down (and sometimes stifle) the process of creation. > > > > Absolutely. As I said, it isn't a matter of "sounding > > things out in one's head." > > > > > For dialogue, I agree that it's essential. Otherwise, > > > you wind up writing dialogue that sounds like it > > > was written by David Mamet. :-) > > > > Not necessarily even with dialogue, any more than you > > sound words out in your head before you speak. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
