The problem is that it's a weakness in a writer, not knowing oneself and plastering one's quirks all over one's characters.
An artist should always strive to go beyond what they know.
I hate small talk and so do my characters. I'm 100% certain none of the people in my books ever engaged in small talk. In fiction, it can be useless and annoying stuffing or it could be a tool to create a certain feel for a scene or character. Imagine this one annoying person with chronic word diarrhea who has absolutely nothing useful to add, ever, and every reader dislikes them, until... (insert some heroic life-saving here).
It's gonna be torture but I'll try my best to add some brainnumbing weather talk and probably also some mansplaining to one of my next stories.
If you are a writer - what do your protagonists or antagonists have in common, and can you find those characteristics or quirks in yourself?
Until next time,
