Crowd Sourcing: Character Questionnaires

The subject of character questionnaires arose in one of my recent online classes. I posted some I have sourced and/or generated myself over the years, but it got me thinking: Why not ask the Go Into The Story community to see what questionnaires you may use to develop your characters.

If you’d be kind enough to share links to or examples of questions you have found useful, I thought we could use this exercise as a way of crowd sourcing multiple iterations.

I also have an idea to try something interactive, perhaps next week, to develop a specific set of questionnaires. Don’t want to give that up to muddy the waters for this post, but more on that soon.

Here’s the deal: Perhaps the single most important thing you can do to develop your characters is get curious about them. And one way to engender your curiosity is to ask questions.

Now there are good questions. And not so good questions.

Let’s see if we can aggregate the former.

Please head to comments with your suggestions. Or if you’d prefer anonymity, email me.

I have a feeling along with this idea bubbling in my mind, we may be able to generate a set of questionnaires that can be really helpful in the character development process.

Thanks in advance!

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