AprilR wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
AprilR wrote:
The thing is i actually enjoy writing outside of legal briefs. I used to write fanfiction and had journals/diaries etc. I don't know why but legal writing is a completely different category for me.
Aren't legal writing typically quite dry, just the facts in the most neutral way possible, whereas the other types you mention are fairly expressive and creative?
Yeah, that's why i don't understand why i am having difficulties either

Maybe it's because it's something i do for fun so there is less pressure as opposed to writing for work.
It's supposed to be dry yes, but concise too and persuasive. In the end you are trying to prove a point even if you don't necessarily agree with it.
That's fairly frightening and intimidating to think about. I could never do that.
It also reminds me of the BAD L except he filled it with things to hurt the other person's feelings (he said it was essential). But the way he did it was so skillful that you can't really pull it out and use it against him, or say what the intention was. Even if the intention was to hurt, or provoke, or scare, or make something else out of something (rearrange the facts in order of importance, which makes people think something else happened)
I mean it was done in a really weird and intelligent way....
where you can never say it was expressing anything except certain facts angled in a certain way,
and ignoring other facts.
But it was done with a particular intent, to bring OUT feelings in the other person (without showing one's own feelings), and intimidate and confuse them, and that intent was always accomplished. Really tough to do, I would imagine.
So I guess that takes good theory of mind. I hope you have that. Or maybe it can be absorbed depending on the person's intelligence
I might be thinking of a different aspect than what your particular job requires. So confusing.
See that's what I mean by inspiring.
I can go crazy trying to figure out just one aspect, and that's obviously nothing compared to what else you have to do.
I want to change my scale from 5 to minus 2.
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