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RS, Author, Novelist · @sfwrtr

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#writingLife: This is about #writing, trust me.

I am #shy.

I've lived in 8 decades; still shy. These days they call it #socialanxiety, which is beautifully fleshed out in the anime, Komi Can't Communicate on Netflix. I highly recommend it. The tag line is:

“An important thing to remember is, just because a person has problems communicating, doesn't mean that person doesn't want to communicate with others.”

When I was young, I could literally spend all day worrying about situations that might never exist. When I flubbed something as easy as buying a transfer on a bus, i could think about it for weeks. Heck, I remember that from when I was 15!

What I ended up doing was rehearsing in my mind what might happen in every new situation I might encounter. Since I really wanted to go places like (gasp!) science fiction conventions and maybe (gasp!) ask questions, I would iterate in my mind through dozens of possible conversation trees, sometimes until the topic became absurd. I became really good at silently and invisibly observing human interactions.

Over the years, I grew skilled at predicting what might happen at least some of the time. Sometimes I'd amuse myself imagining situations I knew would never happen to me, for example I thought I'd never get married because I couldn't imagine introducing myself.

(I also took #EST, but that's another story for another day, and I dare you to look it up.)

So...

Now you see how and why I became an #author! Lots of training building dialogue and figuring out realistic progressions of events. (I also get goofy ideas about people in weird situations.)

Best of all, what ever you say on paper you can take back in the second draft! Try that in real life, why don't ya?

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