Oh yes - I ended up with Sic Transit Tempus because of that world building. Stuff would happen in a story, and I'd know it was true, but I'd have to go and find out why and how it was true, so the 'verse just kept on going.

Trying to describe the synaesthesia requires more hand-waving than I can manage here (I'm not allowed to talk about writing while near glassware) but it does help, trying to pin it down a little.

One of the things that all the personality typing stuff has been really helpful for has been understanding that I just think *differently* to most people. It doesn't make either of us wrong, it just means that I need to take care when communicating because what's good for me will be gibberish to someone else. I'm learning to take the best bits from other people's advice and integrate it into what I do well. It's always, always a process :)