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Character Building 4
Character Building 4
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As always, you don't have to answer the questions, they are simply a tool to inspire, trigger ideas or just make you think about your characterizations.
These exercises may also be helpful in getting to know your secondary characters and even your villains.
Skills and Abilities
In your character's voice answer the following:
1. Are you formally educated or did you learn everything you need to know on the streets?
2. Are you more of an intellectual or physical kind of person?
3. Do you have an aptitude for magic?
4. Do you have a special powers or abilities?
5. What is your weapon of choice? (bare hands, bow, gun, knife, magic, intellect...)
6. Can you operate a car, motorcycle, bicycle, ride a horse, pilot an aircraft or space craft? Some other vehicle? Can you swim? Can you fly?
7. Do you have musical abilities?
8. Do you have artistic abilities?
9. Do you have a job or trade? What kind of skills does it require?
10. Are you content with that job or trade of do you wish you were doing something else with your life?
Feel free to expand upon this list, ask questions or open a discussion.
You can post your answers here or in your own journal. If you are posting these Building exercises in your own journal, please include a link or notation back to
writers_loft, the source. As always, you don't have to answer the questions, they are simply a tool to inspire, trigger ideas or just make you think about your characterizations.
These exercises may also be helpful in getting to know your secondary characters and even your villains.
Skills and Abilities
In your character's voice answer the following:
1. Are you formally educated or did you learn everything you need to know on the streets?
2. Are you more of an intellectual or physical kind of person?
3. Do you have an aptitude for magic?
4. Do you have a special powers or abilities?
5. What is your weapon of choice? (bare hands, bow, gun, knife, magic, intellect...)
6. Can you operate a car, motorcycle, bicycle, ride a horse, pilot an aircraft or space craft? Some other vehicle? Can you swim? Can you fly?
7. Do you have musical abilities?
8. Do you have artistic abilities?
9. Do you have a job or trade? What kind of skills does it require?
10. Are you content with that job or trade of do you wish you were doing something else with your life?
Feel free to expand upon this list, ask questions or open a discussion.