Thanks. Given the fact that I avoided writing, (except direct procedural work and song writing), for so long, I'm terrible at every bit of it. It takes a lot of work to get it right. It's getting easier but I need a major refresher course in Phonics. Progressive "Look see", really did a number on me.
Talking with the other authors here has helped. We all are so self critical and are always searching to get it right...I wonder now, if you'd mis-judge our sentences on first drafts.

Your not alone on the picture thing, read an article on those that don't see. What's amazing is how their brain compensates and other talents emerge as a result.
However, those that don't have a voice is a concern, our voice is critical for "Conscience" and self inspection to take place. I meet many young folks these days that claim they cannot rehearse a speech in their heads. That is troublesome. Julian Jaynes explains that before conscious awareness occurred there was a time when the "Voice" went away and all hell broke loose. Prior to consciousness of self, the voice was thought to be a god and not their own. Now you can understand bicameral man prior to the Greek civilization. The voice may have gone away during the dark ages as well but we can't be sure. Whats disturbing is the implications for present times.

How true...

You obviously have the gift of creativity. I am more like Sherlock Holmes, I see a sentence, and I ask, what does it really mean, why did they put it that way, what are they hiding. I once took down a Supt. of Schools, who said he could not compete, as I saw through everything he tried to sell, which was collectivism in the classroom.Be it via letters to the editor or face to face, I knew what they really meant and hit back, so others could see and understand. Actually, I worked in a US Congressman's office, checking for poor grammar in releases sent out, and that was a full time job, as the person generating a lot of them had a "Masters of Education", and some of the poorest English I had seen.

Actually, I am happy to be in analytical settings, it goes well with all the philosophy and logic I studied. I can see right through the BS when facing a community meeting or school board deception. However, it never occurred to me until our daughter was little, that I could read her a tory, but not make one up. It worked, however, as sometimes when I had a headache, she asked to tell me a story, and she was incredible at it. She ended up with both sides of that coin. My issue was, I was interested in everything, and wanted to analyze it all, from my science and political science minors, to accounting which I still do, to information services which has been part of most things I have done. I just seriously lack the ability to visualize in pictures anything! I never knew it until recently, that there were no pictures in my head. So, when I read about architecture, which I love, I am blown away by someone like Frank Lloyd Wright, who could come up with such original designs.

Thank's :)
Perhaps one day I shall take the time to write something of note. I will need a good editor.
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing." Benjamin Franklin
Regards,
O.A.

Yes, it is a balancing act, but you must start with an honest picture...+1

I myself have battled the forces of "look see" which came along while doing quite well in all respects, (pronunciations, reading, spelling and sentence structures.) with phonics....it's taken a life time to recover. I'm now enjoying the company of an old friend, (writing), which may have been my essence all along.

Laughing...I shoulda known...suspect dinosaurs.

I am truly impressed! As someone who majored in Englih and Philosophy, my skill stops at the analytical. Creative writing was the hardest course I ever took, I have no vision in my head of what does not exist. My favorite author for creative sentences, is Thomas Wolfe, "Look Homeward Angel". A longtime fan of English literature, I came slowly to accept US writers. Wolfe seemed to pick his adjectives like an artist placing paint on a canvas.Although I had learned speed reading in North Dakota . schools, I soon came to think of it as an insult to writing so thought out as Wolfe's. I would reread sentences and realize each word was perfect, and no other choice would have had quite the same meaning or nuance. A great sentence can be simple, but it is the honesty of the picture it crates that makes it great, not style.

I would like to clarify that, while I did structure the actual sentence, the content of the better of the two (the dinosaur tale) came from an old joke/meme. Don't want to take credit where credit is due!

Nothing better than making up words, knowingly or unknowingly, to a song...the laughter was better by far than getting stoned.

Here is one, I have, for the moment, in the new book, it's separated as commentary in script to set it apart. Hoping it'll add philosophical meaning to a direct text...kind of my cake and eating it too.

Your conscious voice: The Journey has begun.

"Spoken to by the subconscious, the cornerstone of Conscience and the stairway to the mind, unaware that one day thee will announce one's self, 'I AM'...on the wings of Metaphors."

I want to wish you a merry christmas, from the bottom of my heart...fleece navy duds, fleece navy duds...don't remember the rest.

However, I always thought it said. poleese stop my car?

Also, one of my favorites.

Terseness.

I think a statement need be simple and memorable, whereas as story screams out for elaborate descriptions.

laughing...

I like a short one by Henry Ford: Whether you think you can or think you can not...you're right.

Thank you, I was trying to create a masterpiece using either style or simplicity... Not sure which I like better......

How about John Gulch's speech...Profound.

Another example of how technology improves upon nature. :-)