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For me the primary way to write any character (or to write parts of a character) that are different than myself is to study that archetype in films and in person and in books, sometimes letters even.

I also give my characters personality types according to multiple personality type tests (I find Enneagram the most useful but also use Myers Briggs and Life Languages).

Finally, for those that I am really struggling with, I compile not just a backstory, but another document that lists all their traits from different personality tests as well as brainstormed phrases they say and other conjectures I have reached. When I'm getting ready to write one of their scenes, I read over that document first, each time.

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