I ACTUALLY THINK ABOUT THIS A LOOOT HAHAHA I have tried to understand why I write the way I write and what makes my writing Mine especially as my relationship to it changes with time and new circumstances, so this is going to be a mega answer I’m sorry in advance.

I think a big reason why it comes across as unique is that I create a LOT, and comparatively consume very little. writing is something I love but its also an actual compulsion (that I need to keep a handle on bc it does start negatively impacting my life and health) so a lot of the times I feel like a CANT consume. Annoying, but definitely has enabled me to develop a style with very little outside influence, esp from other writers bc if im engaging with the medium I just feel the urge to do it myself.

In the same vein I never shared my writing with anyone other than my sister sometimes, and I received ZERO feedback (she’s so annoying). I was all output, no input. I require absolutely no external validation to write, that’s the habit I’ve built, so I think that really enables me to continue writing stuff that is ‘unique’ (weird) with very little concern for how it is received. except for when it is deeply vulnerable then I get a little afraid. but I’m gonna keep writing the same stuff either way LOL.

As for it seeming human and the dialogue: some crazy #emmylore but I have dissociative identity disorder and I can confidently say that is The driving force behind pretty much all of my characterization and dialogue. The biggest reason I write is to understand myself, and I have a bunch of selves LMAOOO so even as I take on different perspectives, they are all very personal to me as one human being and I understand them from lived experience. the best example of this is minho’s perspective vs jisung’s perspective in no attachments, they are both my own and looking at them in a container outside of myself with different context is my way of negotiating the VASTLY differing approaches/ideas I have on my life and the world. Because when it comes down to it I am one person and all the little pieces of my brain need to be on the same page!

I think the dialogue piece is more simple LOL. My experience of DID is very different these days but I used to have near constant chatter in my mind which made writing dialogue really intuitive—if it didn’t sound like the back and forth in my head, it wasn’t right. And I think it seems creative/funny/out there because I am genuinely fucking strange. Like just neutrally and objectively. I’ve had a lot of strange major life events and a VERY strange upbringing, the way my brain is structured & how I experience life is strange, my humor is naturally absurd and strange. It’s just how I operate, I never go into a scene with the goal of ‘ok now I want this to be funny’ it simply happens. Which is why there is ENDLESS back and forth between comedy and drama in my writing, and i think its also why the back and forth isn’t too jarring or unnatural (based on the feedback I’ve received hahaha).

OK IM FINALLY DONE. THAT WAS A LOT. If you read all that woowwww thanku. And thank you for asking!!!