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In honour of my delightfully quirky new mascot, I have put together a list of a TON of habits, idiosyncrasies, or quirks your character might have, divided into categories. Some are rather common while some are a bit obscure. Hopefully this list will inspire you to make your characters unique in little ways. Enjoy!
Trigger warning: If you are easily triggered by mentions of self-harm, abuse, or anxiety, please do not open the read more.
Note: Some of these involve a medical disorder that requires significant research.
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♚ masterlist of bad habits ♚
Below the cut you will a masterlist of 40+ bad habits for your character to have. Some of these bad habits are bad etiquette while some of them are bad speaking habits. Some of them are incredibly bad for your health and others are just unprofessional. Please like or reblog this post if it has helped you in any way!
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Characters: Flaws and Quirks
Most every character has them. Most every character needs them. Whether it’s Protagonist Number One or side character #7, flaws and quirks make a flat character three dimensional and more interesting. (it’s not the only thing and it doesn’t replace character growth and character development, but hey, every little bit helps).
Flaw: 1) a mark, fault, or other imperfection that mars a substance or object.
Flaws can make or break a character. Too much and we could hate them, too little and we can’t relate to them. Ask yourself this: Is this flaw actually a flaw? AKA, does it go away when the big guns come out and doesn’t actually hinder the character in any way? How do they affect your character and the situations they find themselves in? How does it affect their relationship with other characters? Is this something that causes problems? Is it something your character can grow from?
Adding Character Flaws When Flaws Go Too Far: Avoiding Unlikable Characters Writing Flawed Characters Make Flaws Work On More Than One Level Four Types Of Flaws
Being selfish: Everything is about me, even when it’s not. I put myself first above everything else.
Always a pessimist: Nothing every goes my way and the worst always happens to me.
Entitlement: I deserve the very best of everything and nothing less. Everything I want, I deserve.
Anger/volatility: Overly emotional. Takes everything to heart. Everyone is out to get them.
Eager to please: Can’t say no. Always willing to help even at the cost of themselves.
Unreliability: Always late. Never keeps promises, etc.
Compulsive liar: Unable to consistently tell the truth
Blunt: Always speaks their mind. Unprompted and without tact.
Addict: Alcohol. Drugs. Gambling. etc.
Disloyalty: Untrusting and unfaithful.
Cruel: Mean in actions and words without thought to feelings.
Greedy: Hoarder of money, things, affection, and time.
Gullible: Willing to believe anything and everything without proof.
Incompetent: Unable to do any task, no matter the training or difficulty.
Stubborn: My way or the highway.
Perfectionist: Everything must be the way I want it at all times.
Nosy: Eavesdropper. Sticks their nose where it doesn’t belong. Too invested in others business.
Laziness: Unwilling to do anything. Sloth. No desire to complete tasks.
Arrogance: Self importance.
Quirk: 1) a peculiar behavioral habit.
Different Types Of Character Quirks The Quintessence Of Quirks Character Quirks Generator Personality Generator (includes quirks) Character Quirks
Quirks are fun because they can give you insight to your character. It can be done subtly, or not, and in some cases, it can actually be useful in the plot. Quirks, like flaws, expand into so many more things than I can write about here. Create one! Or seven! Think about how your character is and works and find one that shows more about themselves. Use these as a jumping off point to get your creative juices flowing.
Inability to look someone in the eyes
Can’t help but interrupt someone who is speaking
Terribly practical
Terribly impractical
Nail biting
Pet names
Zero tact
Very trusting, even of strangers
Jumps into every situation without considering the consequences
Can’t say no
Can’t sit still. Ever
Never lies
Always lies
Spacey
Overprotective
Can’t turn down a challenge
Can’t make a decision to save their life
Holds grudges
Chews on pens/pencils
Unreliable
Too reckless
Doesn’t like germs
Easily distracted
Dramatic and unpredictable
Terrible cook
Doesn’t like to be touched
Gossip
Lack of personal space
Puts work ahead of friends and family
Messy eater
Always snacking
Character (with an accent) slips back into a the accent when they lie or are nervous
Caves under pressure too easily
Attention hog
Laziness
Hypochondriac
No verbal filter
Stutters under pressure
Obsessive cleaner
Refuses to clean
Odd wardrobe
Can’t eat in front of people
Is afraid of enclosed spaces
Very physical person
Mouths words when they are reading
Tendency to hum
Hair fiddling
Jewelry fiddling
Compulsive notebook carrier
Doodles
Forgets names
Always tired
Doesn’t like candy
Twiddles thumbs
Lip biting
Picky eater
Easy daydreamer
Now, there’s tons upon tons of different quirks and flaws that exist, and there’s no way I can even come close to getting them all. Hell, some flaws and quirks overlap into each others categories. Pick one. Pick four. Create your own. Use this list as a jumping off point and find your own flaws and quirks. Or use these. Doesn’t matter, just write!
some mini collections of tips for writers
(based on things that yours truly notices as a freelance editor. This list is in no way complete, and will probably be added to as I continue to find repeated mistakes)
Dialogue
Use beats in your dialogue to break it up. Even “said” can make a very effective beat between lines.
(No beats: “It’s not lethal. Just highly dangerous with a good chance of being mutilated.” // Beats: “It’s not lethal,” he said. “Just highly dangerous with a good chance of being mutilated.”)
Note how the break allows a bit of a pause for ~dramatic effect
thinking of dialogue, use punctuation and distinct speech patterns! “Life, uh, finds a way.” is an iconic line anyway, but Jeff Goldblum’s signature verbal tic gives it character.
It’s okay if characters stutter. Don’t let the condemnation of stuttering characters as “cringey” in fanfic put you off. (and on that note, fuck cringe culture. Seriously. It saps all the fun out of creativity and fun is important.)
Start! A! New! Line! Whenever! Someone! New! Speaks!!
DO NOT FEAR THE WORD “SAID”
Setting & Blocking
Use the landscape and settings around your character, and always, always remember a scene’s blocking. Where is everything in relation to your characters? Have you left someone holding a coffee cup for the last three scenes? Did you lose a character somewhere along the way?
using the contents of a scene is also great for fight sequences.
Similarly, large character casts are hard to keep track of so don’t be afraid to break them up. Sending someone off somewhere else can create some nifty little subplots.
Keep a personal note of how time passes. Trust me, it’s incredibly helpful to you as a writer and also for future readers.
Characters
Character growth does not have to be positive. Sometimes characters fail or suffer or get their motivations twisted up, and they finish the book as a villain rather than a hero.
All that matters is that a character changes throughout the plot in a way that readers can see; the sort of change they go through is entirely up to you.
scrap the idea that someone has to deserve a redemption arc. They probably don’t deserve it, which is the whole point. So don’t be afraid to make your villains seem completely irredeemable.
and you don’t need to redeem your antagonists in order to make them complex, sympathetic villains, anyway. Sometimes people get so stuck in their beliefs that they can’t see another way and it goes too far. Not everyone comes back from that.
Also, motivations and goals can absolutely change. That’s okay. You just need to have something that drives your character so that your readers are rooting for them.
Protagonists don’t need to be heroic. How you define the protagonists and antagonists in your story is based entirely on the morality in your story-world, NOT the moral ideas in the real world. What counts as a complex protagonist in a world torn apart by biological warfare will be very different than one living in our world.
Prose & Grammar
simple prose is just fine and you don’t need to fluff it up for pretty quotes.
Remember to vary your sentence structures and length. Start smaller and build it up, drawing your reader’s attention.
“And” and “But” are very valid sentence starters that are great for communicating the tone of internal narrative. You’re allowed to tweak grammar if that’s helpful for telling the story, it just needs to be accessible. Test out what you’ve written on other people.
Check that your tenses are consistent!!
Hi! Do you have any tips for writing def characters? I want to write a fic and have done a lot of research so I'm not going to write anything offensive, but I just want to know if you know anything I can do to make sure I don't get anything wrong. I want it to be a good fic and don't want anyone to get hurt because I write a deaf character wrong.
i do!!
before i start, here’s a post i wrote about it a few months ago!! i’d definitely suggest reading that one!
here’s a few other helpful posts about writing deaf characters: if you’re writing a deaf of HoH character…, people are people, and speech is speech
also, i’d suggest reading my post that deals with a little bit of deaf culture
anyways, here’s a few more tips:
sign language
-my biggest pet peeve in deaf character fics is when people make a big deal out of writing sign language. when writing a character using sign language, ask yourself ‘would i do this with writing a spoken language?’. if the answer is no, you need to change it. one of the biggest questions i see is ‘how do i write sign language? how should i format it?’ you write it and format it in the same way you do spoken language. you use quotations and a dialogue tag. in the dialogue tag you can use things such as ‘he signed’ or vaguely describe the hand movements or facial expression. if you feel like you need to set sign language dialogue apart from spoken word in a different way, then i suggest you sit down and try to think a long time about why you feel it needs to be so different than spoken word.
-another question i see a lot is whether people should write sign language as its literal translation. for the sake of convenience and like a lot of other languages, sign language omits certain sentence parts. it’s mostly articles, iirc, and the verb and subject can be in different places than they are in english. however, this is the same as in different languages. for example, the japanese language also tends to switch around grammar in ways that can be hard for english speaking people to understand. you wouldn’t write a bunch of japanese characters using traditional japanese grammar when you’re writing in english, though. you write it how you, the writer, and the audience will understand. do the same with sign language. there’s no reason to write sign language exactly how it’s translated, especially when you wouldn’t do that when writing characters speaking a different language.
-similarly, don’t describe every sign a character uses. that’s tedious, you’ll hate it, and your readers will hate it. you wouldn’t describe every mouth movement someone uses while speaking, so don’t describe every single sign. however, you can vaguely describe a few occasionally or describe really important ones.
-sign language is a language with different dialects. you probably know that someone in japan who knows sign language wouldn’t understand someone in america who uses sign language because ASL and JSL are completely different languages. however, even british sign language and ASL are completely different, even though both countries speak similar english. going further, there’s different dialects within languages. while they would be able to understand each other, someone who knows ASL in new york would have a very different set of slang and some different signs than someone who knows ASL in texas. there’s cultural differences everywhere
-basically, just treat sign like you would treat spoken language. there’s literally no reason to treat it differently.
general tips
-you already mentioned this, but research is a huge necessity!! lots and lots of research is good. also, i’d highly recommend talking to someone in the deaf community as well. first hand experience is always a good thing to get. make sure you focus a lot on researching deaf culture. i find that that’s the hardest thing for hearing readers to grasp.
-please remember that being deaf or hoh is not really seen as a disability within the community. your character is realistically not going to spend a lot of time angsting over the fact that they can’t hear, because deaf people don’t typically do that irl. they will probably express irritation at the world around them because deaf people are expected to conform to society and that’s very confusing and they’ll probably experience frustration with the way people treat them, but usually not over being deaf in itself.
-also, please remember that deaf people have a long history of being forced to assimilate into the hearing world through forced surgeries, forced use of technology, and being forced to learn how to speak vs. learning sign language.
-lip-reading really isn’t a reliable way of understanding the world. it can be incredibly confusing and inconvenient. sign language is a much better way of ‘listening’ to the world around you.
-some deaf people choose not to learn how to speak. some deaf people know how to speak and choose to only communicate via sign language. both are fine. speaking can be a lot of frustration and unnecessary effort and it’s another one of those ‘why should i learn to do this just to make you more comfortable’ sort of things.
-make sure to listen to any feedback people in the deaf community give you!!! this is a very valuable thing and can help your writing a lot!
best of luck!!! it sounds like you’ve already got a great grasp on research and whatnot!
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