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Character Exercises: Scenarios

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The idea here is to take the scenario and write a scene, ministory, interview etc. It may take a little while to find a good path to take with some of these, but once you find it, I think you'll see that writing simple scenes like the ones below really helps you see new sides of your character. It also allows a certain honesty that you might not see with certain characters in action, since these exercises put you, the writer, in the scenes.
Enjoy!



1. What would your character do if they were to walk into your bedroom right now? Do you have a messy room, and  a neat-freak character? Would they insist you clean your room, or complain about how your room is too clean?

2. Choose the most unlikely character and have them give you relationship advice about your current situation.

3. Have your character recommend a book, movie, play or video game based on their personality (in other words if your character is the type to play video games rather than see a play, have them suggest a video game) Why do they choose what they choose?

4. You're spending a day with your character, however, this time it is on their terms. You have more or less been invited to tag along while they continue their regular schedule, it is a rather busy day too. What happens?

5. Now your character gets to spend a regular day with you.

6. You trade iPods, or phones, with your character. What do you find? Do you agree on music (if you trade ipods) Do you find revealing texts or strange photos? (on their phone)Who's in their contacts? Have they left their Facebook app logged in?

7. Two characters are forced to stay in a dead silent library for three hours. What happens?
I came up with these exercises after looking, and not finding, this type of exercise. I hope these can be of use to at least one other person on this planet :)

You don't need to ask to use them, but I would love to see what you write with what you use :)
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ZombieFishiez's avatar
Oh man that last one sounds super fun lol