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I have a hard time visualizing scenery

>> No.11725471 [DELETED] 
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>reading Conan
>Howard keeps calling every archway a fretted archway
>Google Image fretted archways
>they're just normal archways

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This is why I describe very little scenery in my writings - only the bare minimum and plot-related - letting each reader visualize it however they like. In my mind, that's the true strength of literature over visual art forms: for imagination to fill the blanks. Too much description cripples that.

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>build up an image of a room in my head
>later in the book the author mentions a window or a big chair or something
>burn the book for daring to impede upon my imagination

>> No.11725496

Same.

When reading Tolkien the landscapes I imagine are laughably stupid, simplistic and childish, but I grow attached to them regardless.

I still remember how I imagined some random Orc camp in Mordor when I was like 13 reading LotR for the first time.

I make no effort to construct the image as I'm reading. I just read and whatever pops into my head I run with. Obviously the scenes aren't going to be interesting because I don't have much to work with in my head. Maybe if I spent some time everyday looking at photos of scenery my imagination would get better.

>> No.11725512

Lol I just remembered. Reading Crime and Punishment lately, and the way I imagined the bridge that people suicide jump off of is as this 6 foot high, 10 foot long subtly arched, little dinky thing crossing a tiny stream. Makes absolutely no sense (literally imagined some woman drowning in a puddle of water lmao). I try and correct the image, but the original always sticks lmao.

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found a pic of OP

>> No.11725524

>reading conan
>keeps calling them fretted archways
>google it
>theyre just normal archways

>> No.11727093

>read Lord of the Rings
>can't remember shit of what happened afterwards

I had no trouble with The Hobbit or The Silmarillion, but LOTR fucked me up for some reason.