ALSO on another point real quick does anyone else feel the coercion and it’s fallout inherent in like EVERY SINGLE article ever written about non-secure attachment styles. they’re all like “you are SO fucking bad at relationships. the fact that you need reassurance is literally driving everyone away. this is all going to end in a string of divorces because no one will ever put up with you. go get a lobotomy crazy bitch”
like YES i understand that my insecurity is overbearing. but ummmmm telling someone who inherently is terrified of abandonment that everyone will just keep abandoning them unless they Fix Themselves Immediately (something that is actually a lifelong process and can take months and years to actually put into place and to begin changing how your brain works) is pretty fucked up! just makes me more scared! lmao!
So you know when you show a friend a show you really enjoy and a new character that you love is first introduced and you are sitting there like *I love this character so much oh my goodness they have no idea how awesome they are!* and they are sitting there with not a clue. Well today I was brain writing and I decided to start on the backstory of a background character in a story I am brain writing and oh wow I love him so much. The “main” character went to school with him as kids and she is basically a super star - ballet, karate, theater, genius, gets along with everyone. And he is just quiet, doesn’t really have friends (and he is ok with that) but whenever he does say something you know to listen and his backstory is just so beautiful and heartbreaking I gave myself all the feels getting to know him today. Do you ever get that? When you brain write a character and you feel like that friend meeting a character for the first time that didn’t have a clue how awesome they were?
I picked up a handful of non-fiction books from my local library based on subject matter alone. I must say that I did not have high hopes for this one... and I was not disappointed.
Note: My apologies for any disorganization/lack of consistency between posts as I explore different review styles and techniques.
Cover: Can we talk about the Word '97 pagination design skills employed here? Plain white lettering on a solid background- because nothing gets your attention like curry diarrhea brown.
And the cover image, well... let's just say it doesn't pin Irene as an expert in cognitive neuroscience. Last time I checked the corpus callosum had little to do with motor skills, language or writing, except perhaps to relay information to the other side of the cortex while these processes are taking place.
I also think that it sets the book up to be much more legitimate and scientifically sound, which it is not. But we'll get to that.
Organization: The book is organized in a few different ways. It seems to start off general-to-specific. Rather than jump into handwriting analysis we begin with a note on the subconscious mind and "Learning About People Through Symbols", in which your preference for shapes sheds insight on your personality. After this however the chapters alternate between focusing on specific graphemes and their significance in terms of personality, or specific personality traits and which graphemes exude them. The book ends with a section geared towards those in the sales field and finally an FAQ.
Overview: The autobiographical narrative moves the book along and keeps the reader interested, however the use of personal anecdotes as the sole evidence for the existence of handwriting's connection to the subconscious mind is also the book's greatest flaw.
If you're the least bit skeptical you'll find Irene's propositions laughable and ridiculous. We're expected to believe everything based off her life experiences and master's degree in graphoanalysis. In reality, graphoanalytic methods have little reliability; there are very few well-designed studies that provide substantial evidence to back up these claims.
In fact, at one point she insinuates that she must be correct because no one had ever told her she was wrong... I rest my case.
Bottom line: If you're mildly interested in graphoanalysis then this is a nice book to pick up and read in an afternoon. The text is large, the lines widely spaced, and there are plenty of low-resolution scribbles to break up the monotony. Plus you get to read about Irene's love life, her emotionally distant father, and her ability to diagnose health problems based on your signature.
occasionally I have dreams that act as origin stories for my characters. It's actually really neat because it's taking characters I have created in my mind and have written about consciously, and then totally throwing me for a loop and introducing new ideas I never thought of.
It's like reading a novel I wrote but didn't realize I wrote.
The brain is a beautiful thing.
I have had Falke's past events come to me in a dream, and how he got away from it,
I've had dreams where Zayne is having dreams about his craziness.
And recently I had a dream about why Markis is blind, which I have always flip flopped about but according to my brain's inner wiring it was from some sort of torture, not mystical things. And he has a raspy voice for the same reason.
