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Writers often operate in a similar way. But we focus more on what people say. Eavesdropping is a tool in the writer's jukebox. We need a new word for visual eavesdropping! Eyesdropping?

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Please use the word sex not gender! And you are right it doesn’t matter! Love your work!

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There is also “eaves - drawing” I think I heard it from

Sarah Shaw in a course in comic journalism. Writing down snippets of conversation to draw later. As you were planning to do.

I went to “eaves-draw” at a coffee shop in vancouver. I settled in only to discover that on this day - no one was speaking English - which I loved - I think I heard Hebrew, Spanish and Cantonese and an Eastern European language. So - I just sketched what I saw instead.

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