Do You Have a Science Fiction Personality?
This essay (Why Do We Read Science Fiction? Does personality influence reading choice?) by Carol Pinchefsky was published on the Intergalactic Medicine Show in September 2006. I ran across it earlier, but my parents got me thinking about personality types again.
The essay says that NTs are pre-disposed to like science fiction. If you don't know what an NT is, then head on over to take the Myers-Briggs Test and find out what you are. NTs are 'intuitive' and 'thinking', but that probably doesn't tell you much until you start reading about the different personality types.
I score on that particular online test as INTJ, though I have also scored before as INTP. I like INTJ, because we are "Masterminds". Gotta love that word! Read more about the Mastermind type. Most of it definitely sounds like me.
Now if I could only work out how to play to my strengths and shore up my weaknesses when it comes to writing. A lot of the descriptions you'll find talk about how your personality type works on the job or in relationships. Does anyone know a good discussion of the personality types as applied to writing? Any tips for not procrastinating and actually producing material would help me greatly!
I suspect one problem I have related to being INTJ is that I'll think of a 'What if?' scenario and then start finding solutions to it. And then I assume that humans aren't dumb enough not to have come up with the solution. Which means I have no problem and thus no story.
So what's your personality type? Any non-NTs out there bucking the trend?
The essay says that NTs are pre-disposed to like science fiction. If you don't know what an NT is, then head on over to take the Myers-Briggs Test and find out what you are. NTs are 'intuitive' and 'thinking', but that probably doesn't tell you much until you start reading about the different personality types.
I score on that particular online test as INTJ, though I have also scored before as INTP. I like INTJ, because we are "Masterminds". Gotta love that word! Read more about the Mastermind type. Most of it definitely sounds like me.
Now if I could only work out how to play to my strengths and shore up my weaknesses when it comes to writing. A lot of the descriptions you'll find talk about how your personality type works on the job or in relationships. Does anyone know a good discussion of the personality types as applied to writing? Any tips for not procrastinating and actually producing material would help me greatly!
I suspect one problem I have related to being INTJ is that I'll think of a 'What if?' scenario and then start finding solutions to it. And then I assume that humans aren't dumb enough not to have come up with the solution. Which means I have no problem and thus no story.
So what's your personality type? Any non-NTs out there bucking the trend?