Inneresting #115 - Filling in your character sheet
Checklists, questionnaires, and ways to interview your fictional characters
Ask the right questions, find the right character
Cover the basics - If you’re looking for a good starting point for a list of helpful traits to know about your characters, try these lists from Actual Ar, Jack Hart, and Claudia Hunter Johnson’s “Le Menu.”
Inside the Character Studio - Take the Marcel Proust Questionnaire as your character to find out answers like when do they lie and how they would like to die.
Dig into biography - D.W. Gregory gives 99 questions covering childhood, relationships, and beliefs. Amanda Patterson offers a series of conversational prompts for writing about your characters (or yourself).
Does the character fit the job? - First Round Review collected 40 job interview questions you can ask your characters to discover how they problem solve and promote themselves.
Crisis communications - Vincent T. Covello lists questions journalists should ask people during an emergency, which can help think through your character’s responses to high stakes challenges.
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Previously on Inneresting…
In case you missed it, in last issue’s most clicked link this infographic explains rigid, porous, and healthy relationship boundaries.
Other Inneresting things…
Giles Turnbull looks at daydreaming as an alternative to doomscrolling.
Listen to a performance of “Hurrian Hymn No. 6,” the oldest known melody (from 1400 BCE).
Michael “Bing” Yingling shares a search engine specifically for Calvin & Hobbes.
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