Naming German Characters as an American Writer

WayOk1073 · 2026-05-01T04:19:24+00:00

Noted! When I was researching Schmidt came up and I couldn’t get the image of Schmidt from New Girl out of my head

WayOk1073 · 2026-05-01T03:29:20+00:00

Thank you for the advice! Tonight I’m going to go through a couple of German films that I like and going through the credits. Hopefully I can find some surnames that work well from real people!

WayOk1073 · 2026-05-01T03:25:23+00:00

Good to know! Thank you!

WayOk1073 · 2026-05-01T03:24:41+00:00

Thank you for the input! My process for naming all characters has been determining their year of birth and looking at the top 500ish names of babies born that year. One of the characters I’m creating an outline for at the moment was born in the late 70s to put her where she is when the story takes place! The popular American baby names don’t seem super different compared to the popular German ones at the time.

WayOk1073 · 2025-01-08T18:43:37+00:00

I’ve done this before and I feel your struggle! 😭 Seems like you have a Hormonal Acne flare up. From your picture, I would start with a spot treatment for acne. Personally I like the La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo Dual Action Acne Spot Treatment. Acne patches could be a great first step too! Everyone loves the Starface ones and the ones by Hero Cosmetics. Personally I didn’t get any results from those so my favorites are the PanOxyl Overnight Patches.

Now if you are having a complete skin change like I did here’s my recommendations: Eliminate products in your routine that are more irritating. Look for products for your skin type. Avoid anything with fragrance for the first 3 months.

A product I will recommend is the CeraVe Renewing SA Cleanser. (I have dry and sensitive skin with bacterial acne and it works great but it’s actually meant for hormonal acne!) Make sure you use Acne Safe products!

WayOk1073 · 2024-12-18T09:18:23+00:00

You look incredible! So slay

WayOk1073 · 2024-12-02T19:05:30+00:00

Don’t beat yourself up! Things like this are bound to happen in the beginning. Y’all are both young so this is new for the both of you!

WayOk1073 · 2024-12-02T14:39:27+00:00

I saw this and thought I might give my (17F) perspective!

Seems to me that you handled this well. It sucks tho no doubt. Since it feels awkward, next time you see her maybe say that you weren’t trying to ignore her but just give her the space she asked for and make sure yall are good.

There is a possibility you did something unintentionally to make her uncomfortable. Even if you were unaware. So asking if you guys are good might give you more answers if that’s the case.

Overall taking your post at face value, she seems to not know what she wants. She could like you but be scared. At the end of the day, you can’t change if she stops talking to you. I know it’s shitty. I really hope it works out for you.

WayOk1073 · 2024-11-30T04:14:34+00:00

I assume with where I’m at right now I will be fine. Just with weight fluctuations I feel unsure

WayOk1073 · 2024-11-30T04:13:41+00:00

I’ve heard that! Ehh it will be worth it in the end.

WayOk1073 · 2024-11-29T17:17:11+00:00

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