After a reasonably tiring day of saving Australia from certain destruction, (I deal with the rest of the world on Mondays. :P) I came back home to relax. Then, it dawned upon me.
"Tubas can make weird sounds sometimes."
"What if the sky was yellow?"
So, as you can see I have very useful and Inspirational friends. Thanks guys!
Erhem, so, I sat down to write my post. And realised that maybe all they said wasn't that useless. Maybe it could be used in writing. Not the words themselves, but the huge range of answers. Thinking a bit back on what has randomly been my latest tangent (characters) this also fits weirdly well.
1. How does your character view a question?
2. Do they give a sarcastic come back?
4. Do they answer vaguely?
5. Do they reveal much about their past?
6. Do they think hard about the question, or just go off the top of their head?
So, I suppose my prompt is pretty obvious. Ask your characters a few questions and see how they answer them. Oh, and remember that friends can also have some good ideas or traits to go off.
Great post! Very good points too. Even just small details like that can help discover more about the character's personality as a whole.
Glad you liked it and yes, small details really do help the characters become just that little bit deeper.
Hahaha, green sand is pretty random, yup!
I have some hilarious and random friends. That's the best kind right?
I know! It's really cool looking about at people and watching their reactions, then trying to see what your characters would do or say. Lots of fun!
Erhem. That would be highly confidential information. *nods seriously* I'm afraid I cannot say who was trying to destroy Australia.