Specificity
The discipline of naming exact, concrete details — people, objects, places, emotions — instead of generic placeholders.
Known for
- Teachable across every subdiscipline: object work, characters, endowments, initiations.
- Produces believability and comedy simultaneously: 'my uncle' is forgettable, 'my uncle Raymond, who breeds koi' is memorable.
- Opposite: vagueness / 'improv-speak' (placeholder language like 'the thing,' 'stuff,' 'you know').