Watch some talk shows for ideas on questions to ask your character.
Keep doing this to the point when you can ask your character what he/she/it would say/do in a situation even if that's not what you, necessarily, want he/she/it to do, try it and if it doesn't work out then adapt the story/character so it fits.
Don't be afraid to ask your friends for character references.
To check your child's understanding of what he is reading, occasionally pause and ask your child questions about the characters and events in the story.
"You can have a moral judgment," Thompson says, "but you have to ask, 'Does your character judge himself?' If he doesn't, you can't, otherwise you play what your judgments are".
"You can have a moral judgment," he says, "but you have to ask, 'Does your character judge himself?' If he doesn't, you can't, otherwise you play what your judgments are".
Objective: Another important question to ask regarding your character, one that's also frequently overlooked, is: what is your character trying to achieve in life?
In one set of questions, Galant said, the program asks, "Do your character's efforts achieve the overall success, like killing the shark in 'Jaws,' or failure, like not opening the dinosaur theme park in 'Jurassic Park'?" Galant said her publisher, St. Martin's, was horrified to learn she'd relied on software.
Occasionally, some beady person will ask, 'Why are your characters middle class?' And the answer is quite a complicated one.
If you're having trouble developing characters, ask yourself if your characters have any pets or if they have any deep secrets or their favorite thing to eat and their hobbies.
