Found this on another site this morning. It comes from a webpage on story character development by Brent Spencer.
The Darkest Web: A Black Jewels Trilogy RPG > Administration > Announcements and Information > Writers Resources
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| Answer three of the following questions and an extended answer (150-200 words or so) to one other. Don't just repeat details; Come up with new ones. Be specific. Avoid the easy, obvious, and extreme. 1. What are your character's most prominent physical features? 2. What is the most important event in your character's past? 3. What are your character's favorite possessions? 4. What unforgivable thing did your character once say to a loved one? 5. Identify three of your character's personal qualities, one of which is a contradiction. 6. Identify two of your character's "addictions." 7. What is your character proud of? ashamed of? 8. What does your character regret? 9. What kind of person makes your character uncomfortable? 10. What's your character's idea of a good time? 11. What secret grudge does a good friend have against your character? 12. What is your character afraid of? What makes your character happy? 13. When things go wrong, what or whom does your character blame? Why? 14. What lie has your character told? Why? 15. How does your character wake up? 16. Describe a time your character did something foolish. 17. What is your character's most persistent childhood memory? 18. How does your character show anger? 19. In what way does your character not get along with his/her brother or sister? 20. Identify two of your character's habits. 21. Describe one of your character's habitual physical gestures. 22. What caused your character's last night of drunkenness? 23. Describe a time your character became violent. 24. What would your character like to get away with? 25. How is your character like or unlike his/her parents? 26. What job experience is your character too ashamed of to put on his/her résumé? 27. What does your character dislike about his/her job? What does the boss dislike about him/her? 28. Why did your character cut short his/her last vacation? 29. What does your character like least and most about his/her parents? 30. How has your character disappointed a loved one? 31. What's the most uncharacteristic thing your character has said or done? 32. Identify three things hidden in your character's closet. 33. How would your character react if the city inspector came by to say the sidewalk and front yard needed to be cleaned up? 34. What is your character's secret desire? 35. Fill in the blank: "My character used to believe _____, but now he/she believes _____." What accounts for the change? 36. List two or three of your character's rules for living (one of which he or she is ashamed of). 37. Describe what your character said and/or did when a stranger insulted the man or woman he/she was with. 38. Describe your character eating a meal. 39. Describe the circumstances of your character's birth in a way that shows the kind of person he/she became. |
Thanks Melissa. I am going to have fun with this.