The minimum viable character questionnaire to develop all your side characters.
How do you flesh out a flat character? Create a cast your readers will fall in love with? Make each character realistic, well-developed, and believable?
There are tons of character development questionnaires and personality tests and character sketch templates out there.
They’ll ask you everything from “What’s your character’s deepest fear?” to “What’s their hair color?” to “What toppings do they most hate on pizza?”
But you don’t need all those questions in order to create a richly-developed character. Truly, you don’t.
In this episode, I’m sharing the shortest possible character development exercise.
I call it the Minimum Viable Character Development Questionnaire. (There are more words in that title than questions in the questionnaire.)
You’ll learn:
Links mentioned in the episode:
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The minimum viable character questionnaire to develop all your side characters.
How do you flesh out a flat character? Create a cast your readers will fall in love with? Make each character realistic, well-developed, and believable?
There are tons of character development questionnaires and personality tests and character sketch templates out there.
They’ll ask you everything from “What’s your character’s deepest fear?” to “What’s their hair color?” to “What toppings do they most hate on pizza?”
But you don’t need all those questions in order to create a richly-developed character. Truly, you don’t.
In this episode, I’m sharing the shortest possible character development exercise.
I call it the Minimum Viable Character Development Questionnaire. (There are more words in that title than questions in the questionnaire.)
You’ll learn:
Links mentioned in the episode:
Want more editing tips and resources? Follow me on Instagram and Facebook.
And if you're enjoying the podcast, would you mind leaving a rating and review on Apple Podcasts? That helps more writers find these editing resources. And it helps me know what's helpful to you so I can create more episodes you'll love!
Loving the show? Show your support with a monthly contribution »