Dialogue posts can be sort of hard for me. Awkward at the very least. I remember once reading...I think LL and Mercy were having a conversation, and somewhere in their words it occurred to me the awkwardness. It was like Adam and Eve discovering they were naked. But lots of people, in dialogue, go down and respond to people's comments point by point, and LL/Mercy mentioned how real people generally don't really do that. So in my mind this kinda set something off. A spark or something, like a wire went bzzzz.....So now when I'm reading and I See it, it gives me this weird impression, and in my head it's like watching two conversations being had at once and it's awkward and unflowy in my head. Mechanical. So I started not doing that, see how it felt. Unless working a particular angle (like Antonia who could perfectly recall every word someone said and might make it a point to respond to every one, rattling off like a list to check off), I'll dial it back and, at least in dialogue (though not expression) only respond to the last part, or a particular part that stuck out. On one hand it makes me feel better. On the other hand, sometimes I wonder if people get the impression I'm ignoring parts of their posts or not giving it my full attention.
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