• What is your characters name? Does the character have a nickname?
  • What is your characters hair color? Eye color?
  • What kind of distinguishing facial features does your character have?
  • Does your character have a birthmark? Where is it?
  • What about scars? How did they get them?
  • Who are your characters friends and family?
  • Who do they surround themselves with?
  • Who are the people your character is closest to?
  • Who do they wish they were close to?
  • Where was your character born?
  • Where have they lived since then?
  • Where do they call home?
  • Where does your character go when they are angry? Or melancholy?
  • What is your characters biggest fear?
  • Who have they told this fear to?
  • Who would they never tell this fear to? Why?
  • Do they have a secret?
  • What makes your character laugh out loud?
  • When has your character been in love (if ever)? Had a heart broken?
  • What is in your characters refrigerator right now?
  • On their bedroom floor?
  • On their nightstand?
  • In their garbage can?
  • Look at your characters feet. Describe what you see there.
  • Do they wear dress shoes, gym shoes, or none at all? Are they in docs that are ratty and full of holes? Or are they wearing a pair of blue and gold slippers knitted by their grandmother?
  • Where are they standing? Concrete, grass, wood, tile?
  • When your characters thinks of their childhood kitchen, what smell do they associate with it? Sauerkraut? Oatmeal cookies? Paint? Why is that sell so resonant with them?
  • Your character is doing intense spring cleaning. What is easy for them to throw out?
  • What is difficult for them to part with? Why?
  • It's Saturday at noon. What is your character doing? Give details. If they are eating breakfast, what are they eating? If they are stretching out in her backyard in the sun, what kind of blanket or towel do they lie on?
  • What is one strong memory that has stuck with your character from childhood? Why is it so powerful and lasting?
  • Your character is getting ready for a night out. Where are they going? What do they wear? Who will they be with?
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