Creating Fictional Characters

[@ArneBab]

If you work in a serial format, you can do part of this search as your communication with fans: write short stories about those important parts of their life and share them with fans. You can also find many interesting questions in the character creation of old roleplaying games. Some actually have lifepath systems where you can get ideas for answers.

[@AuthorDodgeMerrin]

I like that idea of writing character life-event short stories and sharing them with an audience as part of the development project. I did write such stories for each of the main characters in my series, but that was after publication. There's definitely potential in doing so pre-publication. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

[@ArneBab]

@@AuthorDodgeMerrin The main danger of that is that stories may become canonical that are no longer optimal later on. So an unreliable narrator may be a good idea ☺

[@AuthorDodgeMerrin]

@@ArneBab Not to mention a lot of fun to write. 😁