Writer Woes: naming characters

Hey all! Long time, no talk. Welcome to 2018, I guess. Things have been going pretty well in my neck of the woods – AT LEAST THEY WERE UNTIL MY PHONE CROAKED. But that’s beside the point.

I’ve been getting a lot of writing done in both my professional projects and my fanwork ones. I’m procrastinating a little on some things, which I apologize for. I’m in the process of updating everything on this blog and my main webpage – photobucket decided that they don’t host images for free which was the whole point of them. I’ve been using photobucket for well over a decade and now I have to find something else. Thankfully, WordPress has space built in. So pardon the ugliness, I’m working on it.

(I’ll also be including the 10 facts about me and some goals at the end of this since that’s a tradition for the first post of a new year)

Anyway, there are a lot of things that plague writers. Writers block, not enough time in the day, characters not cooperating, too many ideas, not enough ideas; the list goes on and on. But one of the ones that drives me up a wall is naming characters.

I hate it.

I hate naming characters.

And I freely admit that.

On the Characters You Relate To

Hey all! Things are going well here. I’m still dealing with more pain than I want to, but that’s how things are right now. At least I’m getting work done!

Anyway, this post really just popped into my head because yesterday I decided to redo a meme that I did last year. Just to see how things had changed over the course of a year. You know. Because things do. The meme in question is ‘9 Characters You Relate To.’ I linked to my answers there. And yes, there were some changes over the year. A few characters switched out, though I still relate to them.

But that got me thinking about how varied some of the characters I relate to are and that sometimes the characters I relate to aren’t my favorites. And it’s always one of those things…should we be concerned about which characters we like? About which ones we relate to?

Briggs Myers’ Character Types Applied to Characters

Hey all! This is a post that’s been hanging around in my drafts since last year. I had initially planned on applying the personality types to my characters, but that seems like a whole lot of…pain. And suffering. So I’ve decided to NOT do that. But I still wanted to discuss the personality types as applied to characters in general. I still have the character types for most of the Opus cast figured out though. They might pop up as examples.

I first became familiar with the MBTI personality types when I was in college. One of the professors I worked for had all of her students take the test and a survey and was using it for a study.

I never saw my initial result.

I’m an INFP. I have tested as INTP as well. I could probably test INFJ as well. It all depends on how I’m feeling when I take the test. While personality tests are relatively easy to manipulate – there are at least some interesting correlations. And it can be quite fun to apply to characters.