You know you have them.  If you’re a writer, no matter how much you love to write, there are just certain aspects of it that have you procrastinating until it’s 4 am.  Don’t lie.

For me, one of them is naming my characters, namely surnames.  I hate it.  Absolutely despise is with the passion from the fiery pits of Hell.  I never know how to work my MCs’ (or any characters’) full name into the story and not have it sound contrived.  Even when it’s a viable means of saying it so the reader knows what it is it still sounds like I’m forcing it.  I can’t stand it.  Are last names necessary in fiction?  Will it kill the readers to never know my characters’ last names?

The other one is titling.  I hate giving anything a title even more than I hate giving my characters last names.  I yearn for the day when titling is out of my hands and into those of the publishers.  They know what they’re doing and can come up with some pretty good stuff.  Me, I just gimp around usually with the first thing that pops into my head and hope for the best.  But attachment, pretty much never.  Up until my junior year of college I never titled anything until my creative writing professor said I had to.  With hindsight I know I don’t have to but I didn’t know any better then.  But it’s not like I can query a novel called Untitled.  Agents like to see you can at least come up with something.

So what about you?  What aspects of writing can you just not stand?

And OMG help me hatch my eggs!  They’ll die if you don’t!  You don’t want that to happen, do you?  Caled needs family!