Writing is an odd profession, requiring considerable talent with language but also with characterization. The capacity to envision their literary offspring is easier, and it’s a breeze if one can hear the characters. Over at Psychology Today Ainsley Hawthorn has dug up a curious study concerning authors, their creations, and the unusual circumstances surrounding both. As an apt aside, dig Greg Taylor’s evergreen meditation Meeting Their Makers — The Strange Phenomenon Of Fictional Characters Turning Up In Real Life. Even if you aren’t Alan Moore nor William Gibson, don’t despair as Andrea Moro explains Why You Can ‘Hear’ Words Inside Your Head, and how the correlation twixt sound and brain waves presents quite a conundrum for people. Should all of this float your boat, seriously read Julian Jaynes’s The Origins Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind. Tell the voices in your head that The Anomalist sentcha. (CS)

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