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1001 Questions to Help Flesh Out Your Character by Christina Escamilla

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3.0

Useful questions, I'm using this as a guide to develop my character list for my new writing project. The main character is done. Moving on to the rest of my people.

I didn't use all the questions, especially the scenarios, but useful.

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4.0

Okay first things first. This is only 500 questions, not 1001. Did the author change the book when it was first released? The first 400 questions were extremely useful for fleshing out my character. The last 100 seemed to stem from other book/movie plots or fairy-tales that had nothing to do with my story. I did answer a handful of those questions to get a better read on my character. But I did wind up skipping a hole bunch of them, as they had nothing new to my character, or involved situations I know she'll never be in.

Now this is an extensive list of questions. I don't know if I'll use this set for every character. But I was looking for questions to help flesh out my main character more, and these really hit the spot. I would recommend going through this book for character development. (Though as I mentioned, it may be too much for the minor characters...that's just my opinion though.
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