Who are you not?
- What are you not?
- What do you not want to be?
- Do you consider your characters to be an Idealized form of you?
- How do they represent this Ideal?
- What are the Borders of Your Self?
- What are your Limits?
- How are your Main Characters?
- Are they all relatable?
- Are they different from your other characters?
- How?
- Do you treat Antagonists & Protagonists differently?
- Could you be an Antagonist?
- Could you play 1 of your Antagonists?
- How important are your Support Characters?
- Could you be a Support Character?
- Where are your Characters Born?
- In which Environment?
- How is their Family?
- How are their Parents?
- How are their Siblings?
- How are their Relatives?
- How did they meet their friends?
What would you never do?
- What could you do if you were someone else?
- Without the Repercussions?
- What do your Characters Fear?
- What do your Characters Adore?
- What are your Characters Obsessed with?
- What do they share only with their Friends?
- What do they keep secret?
- What is Stupid?
- Do you have a definition of Stupidity?
- Do you write Idiot Characters?
- How idiotic are they?
- In which manner?
- When do they look stupid?
- When do they feel stupid?
- Do they try to change?
- Do they need to change?
- What do you consider being a Childish Act?
- What do you consider being a Petulant Act?
- Which kind of character do you feel Irritating?
- What is considered Undesirable in your environment?
- What is Ill-viewed by your entourage?
- How do they reprobate?
- What level of Subjectivity is there in this judgement?
- What level of Arbitrary is there in this judgement?
- What do you consider being a Heinous Act?
- What is Objectively Unacceptable?
- What would you never write on?
- What would you not describe?
- Which kind of character do you feel Disagreeable?
- Which kind of character do you feel Painful?
Experiment with Short Stories
- Exaggerate.
- Find a way to be different.
- An inconsequential way.
- How can you exacerbate it?
- Write an Inappropriate Character.
- What are her Goals?
- What are her Habits?
- What are her Strengths?
- What are her Weaknesses?
- What are her Quirks?
- Which Goal would you never follow?
- Why do you find it undesirable?
- Do you find it difficult to follow?
- Do you think it is wasteful?
- What makes her dysfunctional?
- Which Quirk does your character need?
- How many dumb behaviors can imagine?
- What are her manners?
- When are these manners displayed?
- In whose presence?
- Which Accessories are inappropriate?
- In which occasion?
- Which Pose stands out?
- Where should you Pose to look even more out of place?
Imitation & Empathy
- Write as a Group.
- Impersonate each other.
- What matters the most for this person?
- What are her Interests?
- What are her Weaknesses?
- What are her Strengths?
- Other Points Of View.
- Each team member creates 3 Characters: Protagonist, Antagonist, Support.
- Each team member Picks a character from another member.
- Start a Dialogue.
- Create a Conflict.
- How do you resolve it?
- What’s the outcome?
- What’s the aftermath?
- Same Story ; different Character
- Can you adopt a 2ndary Character’s Point Of View?
- What is the function of this character in the Story?
- Is she a Protector?
- Is she an Advisor?
- Which other function can she occupy?
- What is her Role?
- Is she an Antagonist?
- Why is she the antagonist?
- Can you make her the Protagonist?
- Can you switch the places of your Characters?
Team Dynamics
- Play the Opposite of what you were last Time.
- Are you Usually Gregarious?
- Are you Usually Aloof?
- Are you Usually Caring?
- Are you Usually Rough?
- Are you Usually Complacent?
- Are you Usually Antagonistic?
- Diversity & Destination
- Where is your Team going?
- What is your Team’s goal?
- Why did you join them?
- Why did your character join them?
- How does she treat them?
- How do they treat her back?
- Do you write characters with diverse Age?
- How do their Experience differ?
- How does it affect their Evolution/Progression?
- Situations & Reactions
- How would you behave in a Crisis?
- How would your Character behave in a Crisis?
- How do you define a Crisis?
- How do she define a Crisis?
- How would you behave in a Comfort space?
- How would your Character behave in a Comfort space?
- Communication
- Can your character speak multiple Languages?
- Can she write/read multiple Langages?
- Does she use Other Languages?
- Foreign Languages?
- Rare Languages?
- Can she Speak?
- Are there Other ways to express herself?
- Does she suffer from Mutism?
- Can she recognize sounds?
- Can she recognize human sounds?
- Does she communicate with her songs?
- Does she communicate with her tears?
- Does she communicate with her acts?
- Is she an Animal?
- Is she a Plant?
