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Sunday January 19, 2014 I co-led a Minnesota Speculative Writers discussion on "Writing characters with minds different from mine."
Possible topics announced: "Synesthesia" Margaret Taylor (co-leader) and I talked about our personal experiences, with audience discussion. We don't have the same set of synesthesias, though there's overlap.
"Help! I'm a man and I need to write about my woman protagonist falling in love."
"I need to write a character who's a psion. What's a good way to do this?"
"My character is an alien who can see radio waves. What's a good way to do this?"
Each of which could take up an hour and a half of discussion on its own.
Also discussed: Face blindness. Eidetic memory. Different kinds of memory. Writing the opposite gender in general. Writing characters with different sexual orientations or preferences.
My synesthesias include: Sound to visual/tactile patterns. Sight to touch. Tickertape: When I hear people talk, or I think in words, I see it written out. (Never twice in a row in the same font, which I suspect is a bit unusual.) Sound to touch. Thinking in tactile/visual/kinesthetic diagrams.
Possible topics announced: "Synesthesia" Margaret Taylor (co-leader) and I talked about our personal experiences, with audience discussion. We don't have the same set of synesthesias, though there's overlap.
"Help! I'm a man and I need to write about my woman protagonist falling in love."
"I need to write a character who's a psion. What's a good way to do this?"
"My character is an alien who can see radio waves. What's a good way to do this?"
Each of which could take up an hour and a half of discussion on its own.
Also discussed: Face blindness. Eidetic memory. Different kinds of memory. Writing the opposite gender in general. Writing characters with different sexual orientations or preferences.
My synesthesias include: Sound to visual/tactile patterns. Sight to touch. Tickertape: When I hear people talk, or I think in words, I see it written out. (Never twice in a row in the same font, which I suspect is a bit unusual.) Sound to touch. Thinking in tactile/visual/kinesthetic diagrams.