: Do You Use A Specific Set Of Questions For Developing Your Character So what do you ask them? Do you have a questionnaire?

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Some people do. I don't. I prefer to discover who my characters are by just writing them. I'll put them in scene after scene with each other and see what happens. Sometimes the unexpected happens.

This requires a lot of exploratory writing that might not make it into the final draft, but I find that this technique creates characters that are more natural, yet are surprising. I've tried questionnaires, but they're not as fun as writing scenes and they make you decide things rather than just letting characters reveal themselves to you.

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