I imagine writers who are at the keyboard a lot more than I am have this problem to a much higher degree, but ever notice that your fingers have a typing autopilot?
I have difficulty steering my fingers away from words I type often, and since I started writing here, I’ve noticed that my typing default word list has grown in a very peculiar.
Any word beginning with “B” or, even worse, “bi?” Immediately becomes “Bitch.”
Any word beginning with Sa, that is not “Sarah?” I’m sorry to say, I type “Savage.”
And, I’ll confess, I’ve even mistakenly typed “Fabio.”
It’s getting weird between me and my keyboard here, folks.
Oy! Do I have a story. I had just finished working on Heart Choice, with Mitchella (appeared in book 1 HeartMate so couldn’t change her name), when I sold the online story Song of Marwey (appeared in Luna book 1 already in production so couldn’t change her name), and wrote and rewrote that in about a month.
Then to work on Luna book #2 where I was told to change Brandy’s name, and in a moment of madness I chose Marian.
None of these heroines are terribly alike, esp. with Marwey being a teenager in a fantasy world, but I would sit at the keyboard and press “M” and just try and recall who I was writing about. No more heroines with “M” names anytime soon.
Then I thought I was out of the woods when the hero of Luna #3 (also named in book 1) was Marrec.
I must love “M” names and NO ONE will have an “M” name anytime soon in my books.
What’s worse is when you consistently mispell a word and it’s your book title. Like Gaudian for Guardian, then your fingers truly miscue.
Good to know that other people do this.
Robin
Yep, all the time. But it’s with my names. :red: I consistently transpose two specific letters in my real name when I type it. It’s so bad that I’ve programmed Word and Outlook to correct it for me. *sigh*
I tend to do the same thing with Monica. I’m always typing Moncia. I’ve a theory as to why. It’s because in a past life that’s how I spelled my name and I can’t get past that! 😆
Monica
I constantly type Michelle as Mcihelle. MCI Helle? WTF is with that??? I’ve not ever had MCI services to be able to claim that there’s a MCI Helle.
I can’t type “f” without my fingers automatically reaching to type “uck” after it. I’ve had to retrain myself to type “eff this” and “eff that” to try to get away from THAT WORD.
I like M names for characters. Just don’t call them Mcihelle.
I have a few words that I consistently type when I mean something else, but like the others above, I more often have words I consistently misspell (I have a theory that my left hand has gotten faster than my right hand because of carpal tunnel). The short list:
ahve=have
ahd=had
ot=to
jsut=just
toher=other
and a whole host of others. I hate autocorrecters on principle, but I confess they have saved my tuchus many times.
I just have the problem that I have IM conversations with you in my mind and never actually type them out…
This could rival the fridge-magnet poetry—typo haiku:
“Bitch, Savage Fabio!”
writs SB Sarah.
Typos curse her keyboard.
lvoe = love
yuo= you
Two of my most famous, although I have the problem with staying away from my fu keys as well 😛
Sometimes I just swear my keyboard has a life of it’s own!
My husband always types ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’. In fact, it’s such an issue, that he’s started SAYING “teh” instead of ‘the’. The first time he said ‘teh’, I stared at him for about 20 seconds, then said, “Did you just say ‘teh’? What are you, speaking with typos now?” It was pretty funny. We both say “teh” all the time now.
Oh yes, I definitely have the typos going on here. But what drove me to comment was that I saw a commercial yesterday with Fabio, marketing some shampoo or perfume or something or other, and he was piloting one of the punts on a Paris canal… then they go under a bridge and suddenly he’s old, shriveled, and hideous. Remarkable resemblance to the CryptKeeper, actually. Can’t remember what the commercial was actually for, something about life passing faster than you think, but DAMN. I laughed so hard the waitress checked on me to see if I was all right.
I work as a dispatcher, and we have to type in a street name occasionally, and the name is “Big Bone.” I can NEVER type that without adding an R at the end.
hee