: Re: How do I start using my heart over my head? A little bit of background: I am trained as a electrical engineer and the more analytical stuff comes very easily to me. I've become way too analytical

@Moriarity138

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1) Try to be more observant of people in general. It may sound strange, but see if you can interact with them in a loving and non-judgmental manner --it will affect how you write about people.

2) Read books by authors who write good characters --it's as close as you can get to getting inside the head of another human being.

3) At a mechanical level, make your characters less rational and more likely to do the kinds of things we try --as reasonable adults --to not do. Give them poor judgment, hot tempers, childishness, oversensitivity, unrealistic goals (all the things that probably drive you crazy in real life). As part of this, when you write dialog, try writing it at two or more levels --in other words, first write what the characters are actually thinking and feeling, the things they would like to say to each other, and only then write the things they actually do say.

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