Weird Writing Quirks, Anyone?

[xeu]

I love this! I had no idea that Mongolian metal was a thing, but it's so good! I'm listening to your recommendations now. I think you've converted me. Maybe I was just exposed to the kind of metal I didn't like until now?

[vothnthorvaldson]

I love Mongolian metal
@Niharika yep if you're still somewhat interested in metal but are not enthusiastic about the most popular/readily available stuff, I advice looking into metal from non-Western countries.
I often say that there is metal for everyone, because it's such a diverse genre. Sometimes, you have to search a lot to find the subgenre for you.
Same for geographical location.
For people who like folk elements, there is so much available everywhere, only it requires a lot of digging.

[ar-ninetysix]

There's an ungodly amount of subgenres in metal lol

It repeats halfway through but that's still a huge list of genres!

But uhhh, I'd say we kinda derailed the topic after @Niharika 's comment. I say someone starts a new topic about getting into metal and I vote @dragonsparking makes it since he's always updating his thread with all these bands and scenes I've never heard of in my 12 years of listening to it

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I'm flattered! XD
I'm interested. I'd have to make playlists. Lots of playlists. Metal 101 has a nice ring to it. It'll take me a bit to get them together.

A few months ago I did make this thread.

Hello everyone, I'm Dragonsparking, and I'm a...Metalhead. [image] Do you like Metal and it's many subgenres? If so, let your voice be heard! What do you like about it? For me: it's the sound of the distortion, and the guitar, whether it be a crunchy riff, or a screaming guitar solo, it sets my brain on fire and gives me energy.

[CarltonIsaac]

I love this! I had no idea that Mongolian metal was a thing, but it's so good! I'm listening to your recommendations now. I think you've converted me. Maybe I was just exposed to the kind of metal I didn't like until now?

Yeah, Mongolian Metal has been making waves for a good while now, a very regular feature in music festivals around Northern and Eastern Europe. Riveting Stuff.

Great for writing up War/Battle scenarios.

And then there's this awesome inspirational stuff -

[OttoGruenwald]

As for music, it depends on what I'm working on. For some things I just need silence to really focus. For others I put on something like Fleetwood Mac or a podcast.

[MeltingCORE]

I like to pace around while thinking about my story/characters. Sounds silly and I certainly don't do it in public but... well, it works for me haha. It has always helped me visualize my worlds for some reason.

[themerrytroll]

I write with a music playlist, each song a chapter to my story.

[surenlicious]

So I uh...act out scenes from my novel. Like rehearsing a script shall we say, I find it works surprisingly well to help move the plot forward. XD

[Kiweevil]

I'm not sure if this is really the type of quirk you meant, but in my writing I always use four periods in my dotdotdots because the spacing of less periods gives me anxiety. I also can't write well if the music I'm listening to has lyrics, but can't draw well if it doesn't have lyrics.

[joannekwan]

I always use four periods in my dotdotdots because the spacing of less periods gives me anxiety

Are you typing the ellipses as a single character or manually inputting periods? Most typefaces auto-adjust the spacing if it's an ellipses glyph.

For example there's the manual input ...
and then as a glyph (opt/alt + ; ) …

[Kiweevil]

Oh no, I don't mean the spaces between the periods, rather the spaces between the words before and after the periods. I'm very strange like that ^w^"

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Actually since posting in here originally, I've discovered a quirk in my writing.

Forests.

I always write forests into my work. My comic started in a forest. In several separate settings I've created for an RP, there's always a forest section. In a DnD campaign I made, there was a forest setting.

I unconsciously go back to writing forests constantly.

[DarJodo]

Punctuation heretic! Fite Dar'Jodo!!

[Kiweevil]

No I'm too smol and weak ;_;

[linaket]

I'm not sure if this is really the type of quirk you meant, but in my writing I always use four periods in my dotdotdots because the spacing of less periods gives me anxiety.

In an ellipses, three periods would be the middle of a sentence, and four would be at the end of a sentence (hence, the last period being the one that ends the sentence.) Just a heads up when you go to edit, that if I read a sentence that had a 4-period ellipses, I'd read whatever comes after that ellipses as a new sentence.

[Twoony]

I actually work best in dead silence, which is probably why I write best between 3-8am. Luckily I work from home so I can do that lol
I also make faces...like as I'm writing, if someone is asking a question I'll tilt my head like how I think they would or move my lips as if I'm asking.
Um...I also use google docs and sometimes make the background black and the words white. This is more recent, but it hurts my eyes less when I write in the mornings lol

[sarahmassey998]

I have some of the weirdest sentence structures, it drives my beta-reader insane! What's worse is now they're totally used to it and I think I broke them. I get my chapters back and they'll underline parts saying that normal people won't understand this or to confirm that one of my made up words is correct. I really need to start paying them.
I also write best when I'm either highly emotional or bored out of my mind. Some of my best work has been done while on mute during conference calls or on my low days. I try to write a little each day but every now and again inspiration kicks in my teeth and demands I write a little more.

[NickRowler]

I can't write dialog unless everything is completely quiet. I can't listen to music or YT, because it messes with my brain. I have Auditory Processing Disorder. I feel like listening takes a lot of brain power because it feels like everything is running through a verbal to nonverbal filter.

I also write everything by hand instead of in a word document. I usually write a short sentence that gives a general idea of what I want them to say. When brining the dialog into Photoshop, I will add onto it to make it sound more natural. Sort of like a dialog version of a sketch.

[Lio_Lion]

I would recommend listening to "Celestial white noise". I use this when I cannot focus at all, especially when people are being really loud. Plus it has a great comments section!