WHAT YOUR WORDS SAY ABOUT YOU

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” 
 - Ernest Hemingway

“Most people do not listen with the aim to understand; they listen with the aim to reply.”
 - Mark Twain

 The words we use say a great deal about who we are, where we come from, and how we think.

The same should be true of the characters in our novels.

Take for example, depression ...

One set of studies has linked depression to an elevated use of first person singular pronouns ( I, me, my)

 and a lack of first person plural ( we, our), second, and third person pronouns,

suggesting that these serve as linguistic markers of self-focused rumination

 (narcissists show similar language patterns) and social isolation.

You might want to watch what you say… 

you never know what secrets you just might be giving away.