What would you say is your strangest quirk in writing?

[Sailor Marin]

Doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, just an unusual thing. I think mine might be the fact that I often hide and guard my character's internal thoughts and feelings, offering only external clues that a character could naturally observe. It's a habit I picked up in an effort to make it easier for writing partners to avoid metagaming, but it's quite bizarre from a general writing perspective. Rarely do you read books where you simply don't know what your main character is thinking, and I find many writers follow that.

 

[Yityat]

I have an extremely terrible habit of repeating myself. I end up saying the same thing again and again but with different words. Indeed, I confess that I tend to be redundant. There's always some kind of repetition bleeding in if I'm not being conscious. Recurrent words crop up and I end up repeating myself again and again but in a different manner. Indeed, I confess that I tend to be redundant.

 

[Senkusha]

I tend to ramble when I write, especially long pieces. (And thank Goddess for spell check), although I do tend to make up words too.

 

[Sailor Marin]

I have an extremely terrible habit of repeating myself. I end up saying the same thing again and again but with different words.

Y'know, I do the same things sometimes! But for me, it's a malfunction caused by the way I think and write posts. I bounce around my current paragraph a bit and don't necessarily add sentences linearly. So sometimes I forget I already wrote something and go to write it again. So like. I'll write the third sentence, go to start the 4th, pause, go back, rewrite the 2nd, and then accidentally forget I wrote the 3rd or 1st sentence and write something redundant.

I try my best to catch it, but--

 

[Senkusha]

Y'know, I do the same things sometimes! But for me, it's a malfunction caused by the way I think and write posts. I bounce around my current paragraph a bit and don't necessarily add sentences linearly. So sometimes I forget I already wrote something and go to write it again. So like. I'll write the third sentence, go to start the 4th, pause, go back, rewrite the 2nd, and then accidentally forget I wrote the 3rd or 1st sentence and write something redundant.

I try my best to catch it, but--

I totally do this! In fact, I did it this morning on Reddit...

 

[Sailor Marin]

Aha! Seems like it's more common than Yityat might've thought!

 

[Yityat]

You odious writers, always out-weirding me. I must develop a new eccentric habit to intrigue my peers. Perhaps I will write upside-down so that the blood flowing into my head will stimulate my creativity.

 

[Senkusha]

Ah! That's the problem. It's not blood flow that's the issue. It's lack of the color Orange. The color for enhanced creativity. You need more. Here, drink some OJ. Pulp optional.

 

[Sailor Marin]

Listen if I was less cute people would chase me out of town with torches and pitchforks screaming witch. My weirdness is not something to aspire to.

 

[Senkusha]

The thing is, people don't realize that weirdness IS in fact a SUPER POWER! You might even say it has magical qualities to it.... I know this from decades of experience with weirdness.