#spent a lot of time analyzing communication styles today and here's something i've concluded:

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#emerald speaks #spent a lot of time analyzing communication styles today and here's something i've concluded: #i am good at analysis and terrible at anecdotes #and this is why my writing ends up leaning clinical and explanatory #and why i'm sure i end up leaning towards certain characters #EG i like writing in the voice of the guy who calculates every threat the second he enters a room and the guy who likes asking 'why' about e #everything new or exciting he encounters #and i am absolutely awful at the ones who are social butterflies or good at connecting #not everyone wants a solution. sometimes they just want to talk for the sake of knowing someone else can relate #identifying that split is something i'm bad at #i'm thinking about this wrt to the ofic project #so the exercise: is to have my characters tell stories. to have them tell other people about their lives #side benefit of improving my dialogue #it will make them feel more real to people who read them #when i write analysis it feels real to me but i come off like a robot to most everyone else #idk i feel like i've broken through something today. that's very fun.