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This will probably be extremely rambling, and I’ll apologize in advance for that.
Something at work got me to thinking about how unobservant people are, and when I say people I mean me for the most part, though I have noticed others do the same thing quite often. We were sitting in the dining room of the care center and I was running through a program with a couple of the men, and one of the ladies in a wheel chair comes to sit beside us and immerses herself in writing while I try to focus on some of the other people at the table. All she did was comment that ‘Carrie, you should take that to the kitchen, they might need it for something.” I had no idea what she was talking about so I asked her what she meant. She said there was a dish laying out, so I looked around the room for the dish. When I couldn't find it, I asked her to point it out to me, and it wasn’t 5 feet from me.
It reminded me of something I learned in a writing course I took a while back about observation and how much we tune out the world around us. I kind of equate it to how I read. Often I skim read the text, just to get the basic idea of the paragraph and then I move on to the next. Sometimes I miss the important information. There are usually words with-in that paragraph that will clarify things, or have relevance to something else further into my reading. It’s a hard habit to break. Just like not observing things around us, it’s difficult to remind yourself all the time that you can pay attention to more than just the road or the cars in front of you, there is so much more out there.
I’m guilty of tuning out a lot of everything. Often when I go into a restaurant with my husband I’m so intent on becoming the invisible woman that I don’t take in any of my surroundings. Except once, there was one time that I was in a restaurant with him and I was so intrigued by someone that I had to watch, and I had to write it down afterwards.
I've noticed that I'm lacking a lot of that in my writing as well. I am usually so focused on one aspect of my character or their surroundings that I forget to think about other aspects of their environment, or them. It's especially noticable when I compare my writing to people I RP with. I'm continually astonished to see that I'm missing out on so much.
I guess the point of all this is that it’s high time I stopped skimming everything and started paying attention.
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Something at work got me to thinking about how unobservant people are, and when I say people I mean me for the most part, though I have noticed others do the same thing quite often. We were sitting in the dining room of the care center and I was running through a program with a couple of the men, and one of the ladies in a wheel chair comes to sit beside us and immerses herself in writing while I try to focus on some of the other people at the table. All she did was comment that ‘Carrie, you should take that to the kitchen, they might need it for something.” I had no idea what she was talking about so I asked her what she meant. She said there was a dish laying out, so I looked around the room for the dish. When I couldn't find it, I asked her to point it out to me, and it wasn’t 5 feet from me.
It reminded me of something I learned in a writing course I took a while back about observation and how much we tune out the world around us. I kind of equate it to how I read. Often I skim read the text, just to get the basic idea of the paragraph and then I move on to the next. Sometimes I miss the important information. There are usually words with-in that paragraph that will clarify things, or have relevance to something else further into my reading. It’s a hard habit to break. Just like not observing things around us, it’s difficult to remind yourself all the time that you can pay attention to more than just the road or the cars in front of you, there is so much more out there.
I’m guilty of tuning out a lot of everything. Often when I go into a restaurant with my husband I’m so intent on becoming the invisible woman that I don’t take in any of my surroundings. Except once, there was one time that I was in a restaurant with him and I was so intrigued by someone that I had to watch, and I had to write it down afterwards.
I've noticed that I'm lacking a lot of that in my writing as well. I am usually so focused on one aspect of my character or their surroundings that I forget to think about other aspects of their environment, or them. It's especially noticable when I compare my writing to people I RP with. I'm continually astonished to see that I'm missing out on so much.
I guess the point of all this is that it’s high time I stopped skimming everything and started paying attention.
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Oh and just something one of my friends found. Share and share alike. Click me