Also, if you want to know WHY I write the way I do, it's literally so you're remember it. Every emphasis, every emotion, every turn of phrase, my hope is that your brain will catch the corner of what I'm saying and remember it.
Also "I think" is 7 characters out of 500 and you've been trained to automatically, subconsciously, regard that phrase to me "she's taking a position she's too cowardly to own." So I try not to use it much
7 years of Media Studies will do some wild shit to your writing.