https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flthk8SNiiE&list=PLr8gKxewr_e1wF1uHBeIguFNcwl2zUaYB&index=2
I was inspired by this video because of its title: "Three anti-social skills to improve your writing." With the end of the quarter and finals fast approaching, I find that I have very limited human interaction. Even when given the opportunity to step outside my dorm room and seek out interactions with other people, I typically don't. Instead, I end up spending a vast majority of my time working on my homework, studying, or just spending time with myself or my suite mates. Perhaps as a result, whenever I try to write dialogue, it sounds painfully unnatural. I went to a Sam Smith concert in August 2015 at Red Rocks (woo hoo!), where he announced to the audience that he would be taking a break from music and touring. When asked about this in an interview, he said "I need to go and make the stories so I can write about them." I think about this quote often. When I hear about people who "force themselves to write" for a designated amount of time every day, I shudder. So much writing is dependent on real experiences, real interactions, and things that happen in everyday life. Perhaps this is me coming to a realization that I need to have more experiences in my own life in order to write about them, or perhaps it is justification for me being "anti-social" at times. Either way, if I want to attempt emulating real life experiences, I need to work on my dialogue :)
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