Character Questions

Here’s a character exercise from Deborah Perlberg, which will help you find your character’s motivations and perhaps discover ideas to work out how to move the plot forward as you re-read your own answers…

Answer her following six questions – write as much as you can on each one.

1- Choose a main character.  Describe what they were like as a very young child.

2- Describe what they were like when you knew them.  (I adapted this question and added to it as I never personally know the characters in my novels: Or when a key character knew them).

3- Describe what they are likely to become later in life.

4- What does this character want more than anything else in the world.

5- Who or what is preventing him or her from getting it?

6- What is he or she going to do about it?