Right brain or left brain?

cj Sez: I’m a visual person (is that a right brainor a left brain thing?), and that shows up like screenplay scenes in mywriting. Scenes and dialogue are the least complicated for me to write.

Scenes
  I enjoy working to create details that permit myreaders to visualize where the characters are and what they are seeing. I do tryto keep my details sparse and incorporated into the flow of the scene’s action.I.E., I don’t tell the reader the office is small and crowded. I’ll let thecharacter do that by having her desk chair bump against the wall when shestands up or spins around to retrieve a document from her printer that’ssitting atop the three-drawer file cabinet near her left elbow. 
  By the by, my scenes also incorporate at least one of the five senses—sight, smell, sound, taste, touch—as well as journalism’s five “Ws” who, what, when, where, and why. I also add the “H”: how. 
Dialogue
  Writing dialogue is another favorite. I especiallylike it when I can create almost an entire scene with dialogue and need to useonly one “said” tag because I’m able to create a movement/beat for the speaker.  This works especially well for me when thereare only two characters, and with a little bit of finessing, can also work withthree. How do I make it real? I read it out loud.
  Dealing with personal introspection/emotions/internaldialogue is more difficult for me since I “see” the action in my stories,something akin to watching a movie in my head. Narrative doesn’t exist inmovies unless there’s a voice-over, so I tend to use very little of it.
  I’vebeen told and I do understand I need more narrative in my novel, so I have towork on expanding my use of internal dialogue.
 Okay, I’ve confessed. Now it’s your turn. What isyour writing strength or weakness?
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Book Review
  I spent most of last week reading best-selling author SusanYawn Tanner’s Storm Out of Texas —book 3 of her Bellamys of Texas series. I have totell you, I really connected to the characters, the emotion Susan brings to thestory, and the continuous action.
  When the pain of losing his wife still “threatenedto bring him to his knees” even a year after her death, Ford Bellamy knows he can’tspend another winter in a place that holds so many precious memories. He pullsup stakes and takes a stage coach Westward through Indian and road banditterritory in search of a new life for himself and McKenna, the infant daughterhis wife never got to hold.

  Along the dangerous journey, passengers with theirown life stories get on and off the coach, some to stay where they are, some todie. Ford is attracted to the beautiful and betrothed young woman who volunteersto care for McKenna when he must face and mete out death. What he doesn’t know isthat the same may be waiting for her and for him at the end of the journey.
  BuyStorm Out of Texas Now
P.S. It’s free on kindle Unlimited… 

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  That’s it for this week’s post. You-all guys keepon keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. Raising prayers for a happy andsafe summer…with lots of time for reading!
cj
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