Kyle Phoenix, Writer and student & Instructor at Columbia University
My high school mentor Mrs. Debbie Freeman gave us character questionnaires and I did maybe a half dozen characters that way but I haven't in 20 years. Now I freehand it and paint in characters more and more in successive drafts. Each time I add pr deepen a tick, find new stroke. There was a character I've written for years that always felt tight, conservative, repressed and finally I found her resistance was that the love interest was like her ex and she had an abortion. That was a mind-boggling addition to her character then I started toying with her not choosing between two men but choosing them both. Polyamory. Then I had to question the males relationship friendship or more. Those two things weren't in the original character interviews years ago. But it's added a freshness, a depth to the three and therefore the series.
But I'm somewhere in 12 drafts Land so I know them sickeningly backwards and forwards by the double digit drafts. I think I would find questions to a framework weird, stultifying now.
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