Have you heard insincere words that caused you to rethink the character of the speaker? Was it the tone of voice, the actual words? What made you doubt the sincerity of the words?
Prepare for the Writing Challenge
During Words Matter Week, we host a writing challenge. Each day we will post a question on our blog and various social media outlets.
Respond to the question on your blog or social media page (be sure to include #WMW2023 in your response), and then link back to it in the comments of the corresponding article on the NAIWE blog. For each challenge you respond to, you will receive one entry (and a bonus entry for each response written on your NAIWE blog).
At the end of the week, we will have a drawing, and one person will win a fabulous prize, along with a mention and link in the next newsletter.
Oh, yes and here’s why.. I use sound descriptions in my writing.
The human brain is capable of changing symbols into sound; ask any music teacher.
Just because audio isn’t taught when children learn to read, it doesn’t mean audio can’t become part of the reading experience.
It’s all in how one uses words to guide the reader’s mind into not only visualizing what is being read but also, hearing the sounds in the image or conversations the author creates for the reader.
It’s so new for the reader to experience, they tend to treat it in a negative manner for they don’t believe it is possible to hear the sounds from written words. People are not taught to recognize this gift.
Reality and common sense tells us how there really isn’t any difference between notes on a sheet of music paper and words on a sheet of paper. After all, they’re nothing more than symbols written on a piece of paper.
A prime example. Individuals are taught to visualize the barking dog as they read the sentence; “the dog is barking at the cat. There not taught to hear the sound the barking dog makes. In this teaching if you add a few descriptive sound words, the individual can be taught to not only visualize the barking dog, but hear what kind of bark it is.