Character Questions

Just like I promised. Answer these questions as your MC, your FMC, your villain, whoever!

  • What is your favorite color?
  • What was/is your favorite class in school?
  • Who was/is your best friend?
  • Who was your first kiss? How old were you?
  • How old were you when you had your first heart break? Who broke it?
  • What is your favorite animal?
  • What was your first pet? your favorite? What is/are your current pet(s)?
  • How far have you travelled? (i.e. out of state, out of country, off planet)
  • What is your fondest dream?
  • What is your worst nightmare?
  • If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?
  • If you could go anywhere AT ALL, where would it be?
  • What is your biggest pet-peeve?
  • If you could meet anyone, alive or dead, who would it be?
  • If you were in love with a blue-blood AND a pauper, and you loved them both the same and they both loved you the same, which would you choose?
  • If you could choose how you were going to die, what would it be?
  • Do you like rainy days?
  • What is your favorite flower?
  • Coffee or cocoa?
  • What is your favorite song? Who is your favorite music artist?
  • Can you play an instrument?
  • When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
  • Where do you see yourself in five years? ten? twenty?
  • What is your favorite television show? your favorite movie?
  • What is your favorite game? (card, board, video, etc.)
  • Can you dance?
  • Can you sing?
  • What is your favorite food? your least favorite?
  • Do you like to read?
  • What is your favorite season?
  • Do you believe in love at first sight?
  • In your opinion, what is the best technological invention?
  • Would you rather act or direct?
  • Do you speak another language?
  • What is your favorite quote?
  • What do you do in your free time?
  • What is your job? dream job?
  • Do you have a celebrity crush? on whom?
  • If you had one super-power, what would it be?
  • If you could fix one mistake, what would it be? why?
  • Would you die to save a friend? an aquaintance? a stranger? an enemy?
  • If you had a choice between saving the world and saving your one true love, which would you choose?
  • Do you believe in life-after-death?
  • Have you ever had a near-death experience?
  • What is the hardest thing about day-to-day life?
  • What makes you laugh? cry?
  • What makes you angry?
  • Politics -- your thoughts?
  • Are you good with money?
  • Do you believe in magic?

Oh, I'm sure there are PLENTY more questions you could think of! Just think: What do I want to know about my character? What does NO ONE know about my character? What does no one care to know about my character, but I'd kind of like to know it anyway, just becuase I can?

I know it's difficult, but think about your character when the action ISN'T happening. We imagine our characters slaying dragons, getting into bar-fights (or is that just me?), falling deeply in love... but who are they at home? Who are they when dinner needs to be made? Who are they when the TV's on? So, your planet doesn't have TV? Then what does your character do instead? Does she sew? Does he whittle? I'm sure you can come up with something! Maybe write a scene where your character is doing something so incredibly ordinary you would NEVER put it in the book. What does that teach you about your character?

What are you doing here? Go write something!!!

Sincerely,

The Society of Literacy and Bananas! Association

Time travel is like visiting Paris -- you can't just read the guide book, you have to throw yourself in, eat the food, see the sights, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing total strangers... or is that just me?
(by the way: yes, I do know that the quote has almost nothing to do with the post. I just really like that quote.)

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