I find e-prime very useful now and then. It helps highlight the people, feelings or phenomena and their interactions and effects. It helps avoid assumptions. I

I find e-prime very useful now and then. It helps highlight the people, feelings or phenomena and their interactions and effects. It helps avoid assumptions. It helps disentangle causes and effects, sites of action or loci of emotion. Other commenters have noted that it helps avoid assigning power to external forces (e.g. "it is raining"). I agree. The existence of such forces gets harder to assert the more you avoid the "is" of attribution. You can also have fun with it. It benefits from terseness. You can also use it to finely qualify your ideas, in time, in location, and with ownership.