"Write your thoughts." I've done this obsessively for 16 years: writing huge walls of text to myself in .txt journals and journal fragments. Essays written to no one and deleted as the textual equivalent of sand mandalas. Dialogues where I will write to and interrogate myself from another perspective. Some of these perspectives have grown into whole ass-characters and personalities - narrative tulpas where I play chess with myself. Instead of externally imagined characters I will assume the rol…