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WHAT IS YOUR WRITING PERSONALITY?
The 16 personalities graphic can reveal how your dialogue, descriptions, length, and pacing affects your writer's personality in the genre market.
The graphic works like the Myers-Briggs personality test (MBTI), which, analyzes how you interact with the world, take in information, make decisions, and how you structure those decisions.
The writer's personality test operates in a similar manner, matching genres and writing styles based on how you use dialogue, descriptions, prose, and pacing.
In the personality chart, we see the four following categories with their two subcategories, much like the Myers-Briggs test.
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01. ECHP
• Expressive dialog.
• Concise descriptions.
• Hefty prose.
• Patient motion.
* Genre: Sports and Recreation; Military Fiction; Historical Fiction
02. EDHP
• Expressive dialog.
• Detailed descriptions.
• Hefty prose.
• Patient motion.
* Genre: Military Fiction; History; Biography
3. ECBP
• Expressive dialog.
• Concise descriptions.
• Breezy prose.
• Patient motion.
* Genre: Science Fiction; Mystery; Juvenile Fiction
04. EDBP
• Expressive dialog.
• Detailed descriptions.
• Breezy prose.
• Patient motion.
* Genre: Fantasy; Science Fiction; Juvenile Fiction
05. ECBK
• Expressive dialog.
• Concise descriptions.
• Breezy prose.
• Kinetic motion.
* Genre: Fantasy; Suspense; Mystery
06. EDBK
• Expressive dialog.
• Detailed descriptions.
• Breezy.
• Kinetic motion.
* Genre: Mystery; Thriller; Romance
07. ECHK
• Expressive dialog.
• Concise descriptions.
• Hefty prose.
• Kinetic motion.
* Genre: True Crime; Historical Fiction; Military Fiction
08. EDHK
• Expressive dialog.
• Detailed descriptions.
• Hefty prose.
• Kinetic motion.
* Genre: Action and Adventure; Science Fiction; Fantasy
09. SDHP
• Stoic dialog.
• Detailed descriptions.
• Hefty prose.
• Patient motion.
* Genre: Cooking (Recipé); Health and Fitness; Science
10. SCHP
• Stoic dialog.
• Concise descriptions.
• Hefty prose.
• Patient motion.
* Genre: Business and Economics; Education; Self-Help (Tutorials)
11. SDBP
• Stoic dialog.
• Detailed descriptions.
• Breezy prose.
• Patient motion.
* Genre: Humor; Cooking (Recipé); Juvenile Fiction
12. SCBP
• Stoic dialog.
• Concise descriptions.
• Breezy prose.
• Patient motion.
* Genre: Performing Arts; Religion; Self-Help (Tutorials)
13. SDBK
• Stoic dialog.
• Detailed descriptions.
• Breezy prose.
• Kinetic motion.
* Genre: Romance; Erotica; Literary Fiction
14. SCBK
• Stoic dialog.
• Concise descriptions.
• Breezy prose.
• Kinetic motion.
* Genre: Juvenile Fiction; Juvenile Non-Fiction; Literary Fiction
15. SDHK
• Stoic dialog.
• Detailed descriptions.
• Hefty prose.
• Kinetic motion.
* Genre: Literary Fiction; True Crime; Biography
16. SCHK
• Stoic dialog.
• Concise descriptions.
• Hefty prose.
• Kinetic motion.
* Genre: Historical Fiction; True Crime; Literary Fiction
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The original graphic lists genres after the traits.
These are the types of books most marketed with that particular style of writing.
In theory, it should be the genre you will be best at tackling, but we will talk about that in a bit.
In the meantime, let us go through each of the traits and talk about what they mean when it comes to your writing personality.
Hopefully, you will learn a little bit about yourself as a writer in the process.
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1. DIALOGUE
This aspect of your writing personality looks at not only the amount of dialogue you use, but what role your dialogue plays in your story.
• Expressive (E)
— Expressive dialogue is important in character-driven stories.
You write dialogue that not only gets the conversation moving, but reveals your characters through the subtext of the words not spoken.
Your dialogue is plentiful and dynamic.
• Stoic (S)
— Stoic dialogue functions on in a linear path.
You say what you mean and mean what you say.
Stoic dialogue is often found in idea-driven stories or stories for young readers since readers of those stories are not looking to read between the lines of your dialogue so much as they are looking to further understand or experience the events of your plot.
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2. DESCRIPTIONS
This is the most subjective part of your writing personality, as the amount and type of descriptions you use transcend genres.
While there are certainly preferences within genres for different levels of descriptions, do not feel boxed in or compelled to change how you describe your world based on what you write.
• Detailed (D)
— Detailed descriptions are important for transport fiction: stories heavily relying on readers experiencing something new and foreign, whether it is a world, a society, or a lover.
As a detailed writer, you excel at building empires and psyches in which readers can lose themselves.
• Concise (C)
— This is used in prose where readers already have context for the setting.
Concise writers acknowledge the intelligence and experience of their audience and allow them to fill in the blanks, focusing instead on telling the story at hand.
It gives an extra weight to everything you deign to mention.
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3. PROSE
The prose section talks about the length of your story.
Notice that the genres listed with hefty or breezy often deal with the amount of information passed (different from how you describe it).
Now, length and pacing can be related, but are not necessarily married to one another.
In other words, a short book does not mean it is a quick read, and vice-versa.
The cross-over genres for this section are cooking, self-help, science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction.
Of all the genres, these are the most versatile when it comes to length.
Just something to point out.
• Hefty (H)
— Hefty prose deals with a lot of information and complexities, therefore requiring more space to detail it all out.
As a hefty writer, you are not afraid of the big projects.
An epic fantasy or Julia-Child-inspired cookbook is right up your alley.
You want a manuscript you can use as a pillow when you collapse in exhaustion after finishing it.
• Breezy (B)
— Breezy prose is for young readers, page-turners, and oral presentations.
It is essentially writing that readers want to consume in only a few hours, not a few weeks.
As a breezy writer, you are skilled at packing in a lot of information and pulling us through all the nuances of your story in a short amount of words.
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4. MOTION
By motion, the graphic is talking about pacing: the progression of plot, tension, and character growth in a given story.
• Patient (P) – patient motion is more conversational.
There is still rising action and tension, but the stakes are a lot lower.
It is more common in nonfiction books, but can also be found in writing that revolves more around the exploration of an idea than solving an immediate problem.
Patient writers are skilled at creating characters and relationships readers fall in love with so much, we would read a scene of them shopping in a grocery store, just to spend time with them.
• Kinetic (K) – kinetic motion is all about the rising action, big climaxes, and disastrous pitfalls.
If you write kinetically, you continue to raise the stakes in your story so the reader is always wondering what’s going to happen next.
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# WHAT IF I DO NOT LIKE MY WRITER'S PERSONALITY?
If you do not like it, change it!
This is not your DNA and personal psyche, it is how you approach your craft.
You can train yourself to write in any style.
It may not come naturally to yourself at first, but if you are an SCHK and want to be an EDHK, all you have to do is focus on intentionally making your dialogue and descriptions match the genre marketability you desire.
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# WHAT IF MY WRITING PERSONALITY DOES NOT MATCH THE LISTED GENRES?
That is not necessarily a bad thing.
You will notice there is a lot of overlap in the genres.
At the end of the day, how you write something is not as important as what you are writing about.
If you can knock out a romance as an EDHP, go for it!
The listed genres are a great guide to what readers are expecting when they pick up different types of books, but the #1 rule in writing is that THERE ARE NO RULES!
Some of the best breakout novels have been ones that find a way to do the unconventional in astonishing ways.
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Courtesy: Amber Helt
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“I think there are two types of writers: the architects and the gardeners.
The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house.
They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they are going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there is going to be.
They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up.
The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it.
They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever.
But as the plant comes up and they water it, they do not know how many branches it is going to have, they find out as it grows.
And I am much more a gardener than an architect.”
— GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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