Survey results that many novelists are listening to 'voices of characters in the work I write'



Well-known novelist

Alice Walker explains that the characters appearing in her novels 'visit and speak to themselves,' and children's literary writer Enid Brighton also sees the characters. , Can hear the voice. In this way, it is known that some novelists can hear the voices of the characters appearing in the work, but among the novelists surveyed in the new research, it is actually 3 minutes. It turns out that 2 is experiencing a similar phenomenon.

'I've learned I need to treat my characters like people': Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers 'experiences of their Characters' Voices-ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810019304155

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/27/majority-of-authors-hear-their-characters-speak-finds-study

Most Authors Can 'Hear' Their Characters' Voices Talking to Them, Survey Reveals
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A research team

at the University of Durham, UK, collaborated with The Guardian, a major newspaper, to interview a professional novelist who attended the 2014 or 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival . As a result of the survey, 63% of the 181 novelists who responded said that they could hear the voice of the character while writing, and 15% said that they could talk to the character themselves. ..

One respondent said, 'I listen to their voices in my head,' and because each character has a clear voice quality and tone, who is who and who is talking to multiple characters? He said that he could always understand. Another respondent said that the whispering voice in one's mind and the voice of the character were different, and that when the character was speaking, he was in the position of an audience. While many novelists replied that the character's voice could be heard in their heads, some reported that they actually heard a voice similar to reality.

In addition, 61% of the respondents said that the characters in the novel they wrote could leave their hands and act independently at their own will. Some respondents say, 'They sometimes tell me that I have a wrong idea in my head about them. They tell me that they don't behave or talk that way. 'I'm sometimes amazed by what's going on in the film. Whether I'm making a piece, I'm witnessing the scene and listening to the conversation. Some people argue that it often feels like.



`` Not all of the novelists we surveyed had the same experience, '' said

John Foxwell , a principal investigator in a series of projects. It is pointed out that there were people who could hear the voice and those who could not, and the degree of experience among those who heard it varied.

In addition, Dr. Foxwell is related to the internal monologue (internal utterance) in which a person speaks in the mind without speaking about the phenomenon that the novelist experiences 'hear the voice of the character' I think. “Many people, whether we are aware or not, expect what others will say or do next in our daily lives. Some writers are genuine. I might have created a character personality model similar to humans, and in the future expected the character's remarks and actions in the brain, so the character might have begun to stand on its own. '



The research team asked the novelist how often they heard hallucinations in their daily lives that were not related to the characters of the novel they wrote, the frequency of clear internal speech, and whether they had

imaginary friends as a child. Also asked. `` We expected that novelists who said they would hear the character's voice showed a high frequency of vivid internal speech and hallucinations and were likely to have imaginary friends at an early age, '' the research team said. Says.

However, the results of the survey show that experiences such as hallucinations and the presence or absence of imaginary friends have little to do with whether or not the character's voice can be heard. This led the research team to say that “listening to the character's voice and encountering other special phenomena is not a symptom of a mental health problem.” “This means that you lose control of your imagination. The imaginative states that they contain have shown to be healthy and safe, and important for some people to make fiction. '



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