What do you want?
- 12 Ideas
- What maters the Most to you?
- What Influences you the Most?
- Which Decisions are the most important according to you?
- What Guides you?
- What Motivates you?
- What Excites you?
- What Comforts you?
- What Calms you?
- When do you feel Supported?
- When do you feel Moved?
- When do you feel Sad?
- When do you feel Angry?
- 12 Characters
- How can you turn these 12 Ideas into 12 Characters?
- How will you name these Ideas?
- Giving a Name to a Concept Humanizes it.
- That’s how we create Allegories.
- Each of your Characters will eventually turn into an Allegory.
- A vision of a Concept.
- Your Definition of this Concept.
- These 12 Characters will eventually grow into a Fraction of you.
- Your Definition of the World.
- Reusing the Characters
- Should you reuse the same Characters?
- Can you reuse them?
- Depending on your definition of Imagination, you may come to the conclusion that it is fairly limited.
- Can you create 12 unique Characters?
- This shouldn’t be too hard.
- Can you create 18, 20, 30 unique Characters?
- Could be done.
- Do you want to do it?
- Having these 12 character Models ready will accelerate your Writing.
- And in the Beginning all you need is Velocity.
- Expanding the world
- Your Characters define the Limits of your World.
- They are Extending or Restraining them.
- Your Characters are the Fundamental Vectors of your World.
- And you are Creating them.
What does your Character want?
- Goal
- What does the Character aim for?
- What does she think about most of the time?
- What should she accomplish?
- Which kind of ambition does she display?
- Towards what?
- When did it come to her?
- When did this goal became fundamental to her?
- Needs
- What does the Character needs most?
- What is lacking of?
- When does she become distressed?
- What makes her feel better?
- When do her state of mind change?
- What does she crave?
- Why?
- Was it always the case?
- Which resource does she need the most?
- When did she begin needing this?
- What is is?
- Enjoy
- What does she enjoy?
- What does she spend most of the time doing?
- What are her favorite activities?
- What’s her favorite dish?
- What’s her favorite beverage?
- What’s her favorite animal?
- Does she like animals?
- Does she have a Totem?
- What’s her favorite dish?
- Does she have a favorite accessory?
- Does she always hold onto it?
- Dislike
- What angers her?
- What frightens her?
- What saddens her?
- When does she need to be reassured?
- When does she need assistance?
- From whom?
- Who doesn’t she want to interact with?
- How does she limit these interactions?
- How does she act when she’s distressed?
- Can you identify the source of her Anxiety?
Your relationships with your Characters
You’ll create different type of Characters.
How would you interact with them?
- Ideal
- What is your Ideal person looking for?
- What would be her Goal?
- What would be her Interests?
- What defines this Person?
- Which other Goal would you like to pursue but can’t?
- Will you look for a person who pursue this Goal?
- How would she be like?
- What does your ideal person look like?
- Which Hairstyles would she have?
- Which Weapons would she use?
- Which Physique would she have?
- How’s her body?
- How’s her face?
- What does she Wear?
- How does she Behave?
- Friends
- Who do you feel comfortable with?
- Which people make you grow?
- How do they make you grow?
- Why do you need them?
- Why do they need you?
- Why are you attached to them?
- What creates a sense of Belonging between you?
- Who are they?
- What defines them?
- What makes them Unique?
- What makes them Likable?
- What makes them Relatable?
- What makes them Memorable?
- Which Environment Defines them?
- Dislike
- Why do you dislike someone?
- What makes that person Annoying?
- Is she Rigid?
- Is she Stubborn?
- Is she Fickle?
- Is she Entitled?
- Is she Authoritative?
- Is she Dismissive?
- Is she Unhelpful?
- Is she Unsupportive?
- Is she Overbearing?
- What makes her Unhelpful?
- Why does she behave this?
- Can you relate to her?
- What are her Goals?
- What are her Quirks?
- What are her Strengths?
- What are her Weaknesses?
- Enemies
- What is Unacceptable for you?
- Which Behavior traits reviles you?
- What do you loathe?
- Why do you loathe it?
- Do you need this type of Character in your Story?
- How does the Story benefit from it?
- Why would you integrate horrendous individuals to your stories?
- What kind of Contrast does it create?
- Which type of Character ruin everyone else’s time?
- What do they create this horrible sensation?
- Why would you want the Public to have a horrible time?
- What are your limits?
- What triggers you?
Your Characters, You & the Story
- Role
- Is your Character part of a Team?
- What are the Character skills?
- How would she contribute to a Team?
- Does she want to be part of a Team?
- Is she Gregarious?
- Is she Aloof?
- Why does she isolate herself?
- Where does she go where she needs peace?
- Can she share this place with others?
- Function
- Who do you want your Character to be?
- Should she be the Protagonist?
- Should she be the Antagonist?
- Should she be a Main Character?
- How should she contribute to the Story?
- Which Interactions does she need to have?
- Who does she need to meet?
- Which group does she need to join?
- Class & Profession
- What’s the Character’s Class?
- Is there a Class system in your Story?
- What’s the Character’s Profession?
- Why did the Character begin exercising this Profession?
- Who inspired her to work in this domain?
- Who was her model?
- Did she choose this Profession because it was easy to work through?
- Is it because it is lucrative?
- Does she have the Education required to exercise this Profession?
- Who did she get it from?
- Is this Profession popular?
- Is she looking for a certain Status?
- Another Story
- Could this Character fit another Story?
- Could she fit another Role?
- What Defines your Story?
- What makes your Story Unique?
- What makes your Character Unique?
- How does your Character grow in this Story?
- Does she understand this World?
- Does she want to understand this World?
- What are the main Features of this World?
- Which Organizations administrate this World?
- Which natural Phenomena model this World?
- Should she be in Another Story?
- Would she feel more comfortable in another Story?
- Can she tell you?
How to Create 12 Characters fast?
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