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Have you ever heard of a character building technique where you imagine interviewing your main character?
It can be really effective and generates a solid, if non-canon, passage where the character is able to have a voice. The interview technique can, for some writers, make a huge difference for bringing a character to life.
So, let’s post our best interview your own character questions. Try to group them by theme, or question area, or something. At some future stage, I will try and compile the best ideas into a blog post so if the question did not come from you try to drop a credit where it is due.
Introduction questions
- Hello, tell us your name and where you come from.
- Welcome _____. Thanks for being here. You mention you come from _______, do you like it there?
- What would you say were the highs and lows of _______?
Questions if they left that place
- Okay, gotcha. So tell us ________, what finally made you leave?
- What did it feel like when _______ was behind you?
- Would you like to go back there some day?
Romance questions
- Let’s talk about something else. Is there a significant other in your life?
- You and many others… Well, tell us this – have you ever had your heart broken? If so, what happened and who broke it?
- Uh huh, I see. Quite a story. Would you say that love and romance occupy a lot of your thoughts?
- Even so, would you consider yourself a romantic person?
- We’ve beat about the bush but tell us straight now – what do you think the future holds for you, romantically speaking?
Feel free to come up with further questions.
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Teenage questions
Time to get to the questions the audience really wants to know about. Who is your crush?
Have you ever kissed them?
Have you ever been kissed by anyone else?
Who do you most want to be with right now?
If you could do anything, what would it be and who would it be with?
We would not have guessed that. Who was the last person you dated and how did it end?
What would you say/do if you saw them again right now?
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Character Childhood
- Who were your parents?
- Do you have any siblings?
- Did you go to school? (And if so, where?)
- Who was your best friend?
- Did you have any childhood pets?
- Well, that’s the facts and figures of your childhood. Tell us about the experience of childhood for you.
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Life Goals etc.
- When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
- Right now (where ever the story is at) what do you want most?
- If you had one magic wish, what would it be?
- What would make you think about giving up and going home?
- Where do you see yourself in 5, 10, 20, or 50 years?
- What do you need to get what you want to get?
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Influences
- So tell us ________, who or what had the greatest influence on you in your youth?
- Who are your current role models and are they the same as when you were younger?
- Name one song or piece of music that you feel should be the theme tune to the story of your life.
- What was the single most significant learning experience in your life and how did it change you?
- Do you remember the last time you considered yourself “innocent” and what, if anything, finally fractured that sense of innocence?
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