Letter Bias

[Deleted member 84247]

Is there a letter that you are biased towards when naming characters? I find myself biased towards the letter E. What I mean is that most of my protagonists will have a name that starts with E. Does letter bias plague your names?

 

[LilRora]

For me it's A. I really like names starting with A for whatever reason.

Also, it's not a letter per se, but I like to use 'ae'.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

For me it's A. I really like names starting with A for whatever reason.

Also, it's not a letter per se, but I like to use 'ae'.

Like this? "Æ"

 

[LilRora]

Like this? "Æ"

Well, that's how it reads, but it can be either. I was thinking of 'ae' as in Maeve, but you can replace it with that thing I can't write cause I'm writing on a keyboard and it'll make no difference.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

L is often in the middle of names I make

 

[Deleted member 84247]

L is often in the middle of names I make

I have started a few names with "En" for characters: Enala, Enora, and Envy. There are other characters who also get the E treatment: Elaina, Elenore, Evelynn, Ethora, etc. It is like Elon Musk's obsession with the letter X.

 

[Rhaps]

For me its the letter H, there is something resonating inside me with this letter

 

[NotaNuffian]

J or D.

J cuz my name is Jon.

D because Dick.

ps. In recent memories. F. Because I am a Failure. In the next trend it might be L.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

J or D.

J cuz my name is Jon.

D because Dick.

I should have forseent this.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

J or D.

J cuz my name is Jon.

D because Dick.

ps. In recent memories. F. Because I am a Failure. In the next trend it might be L.

JD? Someone might like medical sitcoms...

 

[Deleted member 84247]

ps. In recent memories. F. Because I am a Failure. In the next trend it might be L.

Don't put yourself down like that. You aren't a failure if you have failed at something. Instead of calling yourself a failure it is more beneficial to your mental health to say that you failed at a task. If you consider yourself a failure, it justifies your reasons for stagnation. "I don't have to do x, y, and z because I am a failure." Even if it doesn't do that to you specifically, it isn't good for you.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Don't put yourself down like that. You aren't a failure if you have failed at something. Instead of calling yourself a failure it is more beneficial to your mental health to say that you failed at a task. If you consider yourself a failure, it justifies your reasons for stagnation. "I don't have to do x, y, and z because I am a failure." Even if it doesn't do that to you specifically, it isn't good for you.

Thank you.

Also, I might be a manipulative asshole who sells himself as a poor bastard to garner pity.

Think of me as a leech to positivity instead of the economy.

JD? Someone might like medical sitcoms...

Err. No.

Either J or D. JD sounds a bit too close to some people I know IRL.

 

[Sola-sama]

For me, S. It sound cooler to me when a name has 's' in it.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Thank you.

Also, I might be a manipulative asshole who sells himself as a poor bastard to garner pity.

Think of me as a leech to positivity instead of the economy.

You could be exactly that, but I don't think you are.

For me, S. It sound cooler to me when a name has 's' in it.

Do you read any stories with snake people? Ssssssss~

 

[NotaNuffian]

You could be exactly that, but I don't think you are.

You see good in everyone.

Whelp, my man-o-pause is flipping again and funnily my fourth model is, so far, running nicely. I'm going to see when it's going to cripple itself just like its brethren.

Edit: It fudged now.

 

[Zinless]

Is there a letter that you are biased towards when naming characters? I find myself biased towards the letter E. What I mean is that most of my protagonists will have a name that starts with E. Does letter bias plague your names?

Mine is E as well, "El" more specifically.

I sometimes give them names like "Elara", "Elie", "Elustria", etc. all the time until I noticed almost all of the names in my story starts with "El". I've since changed them all during editing so there's no "El" in sight in my story... I think.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

You see good in everyone.

It is easy to see the good in people when I have seen the bad in myself. When I have been at my worst there was still someone to see something good in me.

Whelp, my man-o-pause is flipping again and funnily my fourth model is, so far, running nicely. I'm going to see when it's going to cripple itself just like its brethren.

Edit: It fudged now.

As for this, I have now idea what this means.

Mine is E as well, "El" more specifically.

I sometimes give them names like "Elara", "Elie", "Elustria", etc. all the time until I noticed almost all of the names in my story starts with "El". I've since changed them all during editing so there's no "El" in sight in my story... I think.

A fellow E lover!

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Due to how my real language works, I'm a bit biased toward "A".

Even after using English heavily for years, I still prefer usage of "A" than "E".

 

[RepresentingWrath]

No.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Due to how my real language works, I'm a bit biased toward "A".

Even after using English heavily for years, I still prefer usage of "A" than "E".

ECertainPassingUser

No.