Write Without Visual Aid

If one engages in Blog, article writing, write a book, just simply keep a diary or anything to write regularly, he may have the same experience this article discusses. There is a Japanese News Site, which does not allow writers to use any illustration, pictures, videos, or images. The advanced Internet capability of handling images and motion pictures spoils writers writing their articles without visual aid. For example, it would be difficult to write about San Francisco 49 miles Scenic Drive, without using maps and pictures to visualize the drive. In the News Article, no writer can use visual aids.

This is particularly useful, however, to brush up writers' skill of describing and explaining things without visual aids like images. The writer needs to visualize what he wants to say, and he hopes to convey his imagination to the readers. Then he would write down the image using the best words and sentences he could think of. Finally, he needs to proof read to make sure what he wrote makes sense. The writer must be aware to make his writing to be visual to people who read it. Sometimes the author is not sure if he correctly visualized what he wanted to write, so he asks his friend or family to read and explain what I wrote in their words.

It looks fairly easy to explain this way, but if a writer does not use any visual aid for an article, it takes him double the time or sometimes 3 times of time than he writes with visual aids. Some authors, professional writers, novelists are remarkably skillful at it. Orson Wells is proficient at it. Edgar Alan Poe is good at it. Some more English or Japanese authors are very good at it. What one visualizes may be different from others, but still people can clearly visualize the scene as if they are there watching it.

One of the advices of English teacher to nonnative speakers is to speak slowly. Even if one is a nonnative speaker of a language, if he speaks slowly, chances are he can convey his message, and he could make himself understood. A writer can apply the same principle in writing. The writer can try to use simpler, easier words, terms, and sentences to write in case one cannot use visual aids.

Having said that, people still like using visual aids. It is not only simpler to take images to show, but also make an article colorful or sometimes dynamic, even not directly showing what one is writing about. Illustrations or literally Image help writing articles! Only thing we should keep in mind is that images are "aids". If readers pay attention to only images that the writer uploaded, the one is not successful writer.

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