: Re: "multiple personalities" for character development in writing? How can I train myself to think in "multiple personalities" so I can use these personalities for character development in writing?

@Ogunnowo420

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Quick side note: Role Playing Games such as Dungeons and Dragons helped me out with this. Playing make believe, too.

Now the answer:

You need what many call a brief, although stating "brief" is just the name, being a rather longish document. In a character's brief, you write down their characteristics. A good thing to do is write down their traits (easily angered, quick to laugh, spontaneous), then when writing a scene, look back at these traits and check for incongruousness. You might find, or not. In any case, you don't have to "think" in multiple personalities. You give the characters traits. They take life and you follow them and their actions. Write what you think first, then check back on the character's traits and edit the scene.

You might have written the character as slow to anger in a scene, but given it (at the moment of fleshing out) a quick temper. You need to change accordingly, unless the character is growing out of their quick temper; in that case, you should take note appropriately in the place you have those traits written down. "She starts learning how to control her temper in this and that scenes".

This helps a lot to keep track of character believability, and also with character development.

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