know your characters

learn about your character’s by asking unconventional questions:

• What is your character’s mission statement?

• What is their most deeply held belief about themselves that is wrong?

• What do they consider the most overrated virtue?

• What do they tell themselves when they keep the pen that comes in the drive through drawer at the bank?

• What word or phrase do they overuse?

• Which member of their family avoids them? Why?

• What is in their  refrigerator that they hope no one finds?

• What do they keep in the back of their nightstand drawer?

• What did their lover leave in the pocket of their winter coat?

• What did they decide not to shred that they will regret?

• What was the last thing they said to their therapist before leaving for vacation? Why?