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Dave McCusker and DandelionWings on talking and writing to yourself. Ugh, maybe I have to re-read ZenMotorcycles again. The object lesson teaches a writer to report on one's own ideas. No one else has written about your thumb, or about a given brick. So you can't repeat what they said. Better yet, you don't have to. / When I most find conversations intriguing is when I discover a part of myself in someone else. Then I talk. If you look at it that way then it is completely legitimate to talk to yourself. You are talking to that part of yourself you have not yet found in someone else. In the mean time you have to keep it alive, don't you? So with a prop, an ear piece, or a wig you talk to yourself.