{"id":199,"date":"2021-05-15T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T04:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-10-04T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:27:34","slug":"8-quirks-to-make-your-characters-more-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/15\/8-quirks-to-make-your-characters-more-unique\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Quirks to Make Your Characters More Unique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Want to make your characters more memorable, but aren’t sure how? Here’s a list of eccentricities and quirks you can give them to make them a little more unique.\u00a0 (Credit for thinking of some of them goes to friends in the Young Writers Workshop.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go to 8 Quirks to Make Your Characters More Unique<\/a> to keep reading!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Fondness for feeling and\/or squeezing marshmallows.\u00a0 This is me.\u00a0 Don\u2019t they have the most fascinating texture ever?\u00a0 You should try it next time you’re at a campfire party.\u00a0 Or it could be something else, like ketchup packets.<\/li>
  2. Language.\u00a0 This has a lot of options: perhaps they tend to ramble on and on, or have pet words or phrases that they use all the time, like the Scooby-Doo gang\u2019s \u201cJeepers!\u201d or \u201cJinkies!\u201d\u00a0 Maybe they\u2019re incapable of not speaking sarcastically when under stress.<\/li>
  3. Random knowledge of random things.\u00a0 Is their room decorated solely with merch from an obscure fandom?\u00a0 Do they know every Jeopardy! question that Ken Jennings was ever asked?\u00a0 (Insider secret: I initially drafted this post the day after the G.O.A.T. contest.)\u00a0<\/li>
  4. Habit of poking nearby pencils into holes in objects (e.g. the ones in bookshelves).\u00a0 (I know someone who kind of does that.)<\/li>
  5. Inability to resist pushing buttons.\u00a0 I don\u2019t just mean the big, red ones that say \u201cdo not push,\u201d I mean any button, anywhere. They just really, really want to push them.<\/li>
  6. Sometimes they speak about themselves, or someone else who’s standing right in front of them, in the third person.\u00a0 Maybe when they\u2019re tired, or to be goofy, or for some unknown reason they just randomly do it.<\/li>
  7. They really love facepalming.\u00a0 It has to do more with my writing style \/ pet words than with a specific character, but my characters tend to do that.<\/li>
  8. On the opposite side, maybe they really dislike something you wouldn\u2019t expect them to, like whistling.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    There are a million other possible quirks that aren\u2019t on here (although I\u2019m loosely planning to compile a much longer list as I think of more), but hopefully this is enough to get you started.\u00a0 If you think of more, don\u2019t be shy about posting them in the comments!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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