TeaWithZizek@alien.topBtoBooks•How do you picture the characters you’re reading in your head?English
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11 months agoIf it’s the type of novel with very vividly described characters and scenes. I fully cast it with actors I like (usually the same handful), and I can hear their voice in my head reciting the speech. The narrator too is usually an actor’s voice that I like.
Journals aren’t the same as memoir or works where someone is genuinely trying to reframe periods of their life as having some kind of narrative that they can gleam insight from. A journal is simply shit that happened, when, and with a bit of reflection. They’re useful to us trying to build a portrait and a timeline of someone’s life, but more often than not none of us were ever meant to see them.