Internal Monologue

[Labster]

<chuckle>  There was a moment a couple hours ago where thanks to this thread I was thinking to myself, "I do have an inner monologue!  I do, I do, I do!"

I see you in there, Looney Toons!

Insofar as writing is concerned, I've always been very good a dialogue.  I just know what sounds like a real person talking, and what differentiates the voices of different people.  I had that before I knew I wanted to write, and was one of the skills that surprised my professors at college when I entered the Creative Writing program.  (I still treasure the moment when one of my instructors told me I wrote more believable women and women's dialogue than some of the girls in the workshop.)  There is almost certainly a connection.

For me, it was the time in university when Chelsea, my GM, told me that I was very good at roleplaying a teenage girl.  I laughed, because it was the kind of thing that was intended and accepted as a compliment, but probably also meant that I was realistically annoying in-character.