I type pretty close to stream-of-consciousness, in that I’ll just start typing without knowing specifically how a sentence or paragraph will end, and that type of writing reads pretty close to how I speak in person. Usually this has a ton of verbal clutter, because I’ll put pauses, and even breaks, that represent when I’m stopping to think about… how exactly I want to say something. It also has a lot of my verbal habits like discourse markers, which I use a lot. Arguably too much. So I’ll usually go back through and edit and clean up the ambiguous commas and distracting parentheticals and so forth. Sometimes though, especially in light chitchat, I just let em fly and see what happens. It’s nice to just be literarily careless every once in a while.

Speaking of "lol"s, I have to continually struggle not to let it slip into my spoken vocabulary. It’s funny how it operates as a laughing signifier, but not like an actual laugh. It reminds me of someone hearing a joke, nodding thoughtfully, and saying, “yes, that’s funny”. But somehow more disrespectful? I find it off-putting for reasons I find hard to justify even to myself, nevertheless I have some instinctive resistance to allowing it to enter my IRL lexicon without a fight.