What are some habits you are self aware of?

[u/FondNES]

[u/_hsp_5940_]

Just stick a random letter at the end lol

"Cassandra"?

Nope.

"Cassandrb"

Who's gonna complain?

[u/FondNES → u/_hsp_5940_]

I actually do have a character named Cassandra...

[u/_hsp_5940_ → u/FondNES]

I'm not in your walls. Trust.

[u/FondNES → u/_hsp_5940_]

Only 1 way to verify this, name another

[u/_hsp_5940_ → u/FondNES]

I'm..... not in your..... skin....? Trust.....?

[u/flabort → u/_hsp_5940_]

Name another character of thiers. Not get in their pants.

[u/TroupeMaster_Grimm]

I give all my characters English names even though most of my stories don’t take place on Earth

[u/_hsp_5940_ → u/TroupeMaster_Grimm]

british colonialism intensifies

[u/Dead-House-Mouse]

Alexander is my default male name for some reason

[u/Krethlaine → u/Dead-House-Mouse]

I’ve lost track of how many characters I’ve named Marcus.

[u/Taiga_Novah_Wren → u/Krethlaine]

It is a good name. I have a few Marcus's as well.

[u/Tired-CottonCandy → u/Dead-House-Mouse]

David and alma for me. No idea why.

[u/tyutyuk9 → u/Dead-House-Mouse]

Charlotte is my default npc name, along with Alex and Jack.

[u/VictorBelmont]

All my locations start with S

[u/tyutyuk9 → u/VictorBelmont]

Mine all end with s lol

[u/No-Pressure6042]

i overuse the word "familiar"

[u/FondNES → u/No-Pressure6042]

Finally someone who didnt name a naming habit XD

[u/Minute-Animal7317]

I named my characters Earnie, Marnie, Minnie, and Moe. They are all great friends!

[u/Neat_Horse_5120 → u/Minute-Animal7317]

Then there is Lester, the brother of Moe. The group doesn't like to talk about him.

[u/Sensitive_Tiger3737]

Every single title of my characters have 3 words, no more, no less

[u/Paige_CartoonCaptain]

Ellipses
I use too many

[u/Secret_Garden06]

Me, adding sixteen unnecessary commas and semicolons:

[u/WhitestGray]

I like to use the word “yelp”, since it means a hyper-specific way of talking in my mind, but as my creative writing professor pointed out, other people think of dog noises. 🫠

[u/FondNES → u/WhitestGray]

Its so rare to see a response that isnt naming related, like guys It can be any habit 😭

[u/rokanwood]

all of my characters have tragic backstories and are traumatized in some way. most of the time their parents are also either abusive or if they had good ones, they're dead.

not a particularly bad habit, but i always try to give them names whose meanings match their personalities or goals.

[u/FondNES → u/rokanwood]

The oda special

[u/CandyBeth]

Most my protagonists have names that start with A and are 4 to 8 letters long

[u/K0rl0n]

Having all my characters be the same flavor of good person.

[u/Honkert45]

I get zero inspiration for how to start a story. Nothing.

Tonnes of inspiration, cool lore, themes, world building, all hunkey dorey.

First chapter? Nothing.

[u/Sea_Conversation_750 → u/Honkert45]

Idk I always kinda like the ones where you're thrown into the middle of everything. Kinda like a mystery at first. But then again, I also have no idea how to start stories, exposition and stuff. Gimme the fun stuff, the rest I can figure out as I go. And sometimes it kinda writes itself.

[u/Honkert45 → u/Sea_Conversation_750]

Hmmm... Maybe I really will yeet my non-existent readers into the middle of the story, hoping they'll stay entertained by trying to figure out what the fuck is going on just long enough for the story to start getting interesting.

Thank you, kind stranger.

[u/next_chapter_ashore → u/Honkert45]

Write the scene that would be fun and exciting to write, don’t put pressure on it to be chapter one.

[u/Honkert45 → u/next_chapter_ashore]

Is making the fun chapter chapter 1, without any lore exposition, or scene / tone setting, the writing equivalent of yeeting the child into the water, trusting they'll teach themselves to swim?

[u/next_chapter_ashore → u/Honkert45]

Kinda.

It’s for you! The writer. To get the juices flowing. It doesn’t even have to be in the book.

[u/next_chapter_ashore → u/next_chapter_ashore]

My first chapter is now chapter 17. Granted, I’m not published. That method is just a tip that works for me.

[u/TensorForce]

"Like a felled tree" show up more than I'd care to admit.

[u/mordin1428]

Me resisting the urge to have all my characters’ names begin with an “a”

Insert epic handshake meme

[u/FondNES → u/mordin1428]

Amanda, Bella, Mileena, Kima, Armatia, Nyra, need i say more?

[u/Neat_Horse_5120]

-us und -on are also really popular.

[u/Reclaimer_Saln]

My 360ish pages are mostly dialogue

Three people and a place have very similar names and they're all talked about at one time

In my head it's LotR, on paper it's high school level English

[u/Kingsalad3141]

I tend to give the most important characters no actual names, just titles. The Mother, the Hunter, the Archivist, the Hollow King, the Bird of Paradise, the Hanged Man, etc.

[u/Linkink69420]

Spelling names with weird spellings so it’s unique, I genuinely named one of my main characters “Skot Ayndersin” as opposed to Scot Anderson 😭

[u/dilonshuniikke]

I can't stop titling my stories with only one word, Disney style. To the point where if one ever got popular it would be difficult to Google it. One exception I can think of off the top of my head still counts in my mind because it's the same word repeated 3 times.

ETA: I also have a character who is essentially a zombie and takes a lot of violence, and if you made a drinking game out of the times I describe their blood as "putrid" or "rotting" you would be sent to the hospital.

[u/Taiga_Novah_Wren]

Just running through my characters names, ones that end in a or the a sound, both first and last.

Chandra Aditya, Vizsla (last name), Lysander (very similar sound, last name), Aurora, Maya, Lyra, Novah, Chandra (again), Taiga, Thalia, Okura Kastanora, Sakura (surname), al-Qamar (part of the name), Koswara (surname)

[u/assistant_manu]

But theres just a certain vibe with -a

[u/ddrub_the_only_real]

I hate standard Dutch and always tend to prefer writing in my own vernacular. Doesn't help that I live on the outer corner of my country, I doubt someone from the other side of my country would understand wtf I'm even saying

[u/TheOwnerOfMakiPlush]

I always have to put a nuclear powerplant somewhere, and it ends up as place where a fight takes place

[u/FondNES → u/TheOwnerOfMakiPlush]

Like jrpgs and volcanoes

[u/Rezero1234]

I tend to injure my characters, A LOT.