Thinking Out Loud In My Head

I do this pretty much constantly. I have a running narration in my head that I sometimes pause, rewind, edit, and replay to get the words right. It's as if I need this narration to be ready at any moment to be published, or spoken.

It's not like a conversation. I don't have multiple persona's at work here. It's just the way I think. Speaking of which, I spoke to a reader who commented that some of my posts must have been drug-induced, as they were "out there." Sorry to say, that's how I think pretty much all the time. Maybe not "out there" but not entirely "in there" either.

It's funny that I don't listen to books considering that's how I read them. Out loud, inside my head. The Curmudgeon-in-Chief at 76003.1414 writes:

Audio books take longer because listening is slower, but for book books, the kind you read with your eyes, two, maybe three days suffices for a good one so seven is plenty of time.

76003.1414: Fantastic

I have to work at reading a book in a month. I know exactly how many pages I have to read each day in order to finish before my book is due. I like how the words sound, in my head, so these things can't be rushed. But that definitely made War and Peace and very, very long read for me.

I've always thought the definition of blogging should be "the outlet for the running conversation in my head." But narration is a better word since mine is the only voice in there. If it weren't for blogging, some of this might leak out loud. And If you thought reading this blog was "out there," consider the audio version.