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72 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 27 Oct \ on: What character traits do you most want your character(s) to have? the_stacker_muse

I find it difficult to keep a particular trait or set of traits in mind when writing a character. I think I focus on a feeling of who I want them to be and see where that leads us.

102 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 27 Oct

You can buy trait sheets from WotC for your characters ~lol

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 27 Oct

I'm not necessarily at a loss for such traits, only I find defining a character by their traits turns them into cardboard while harboring a feeling about them in my mind helps me imagine them as a person I'm getting to know. Keeps it interesting.

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 27 Oct

Yeah, I get it (was just taking the piss, sorry)

I also think that the magic of discovering character traits is best enjoyed when it isn't all too static, unless we're talking about AIs that don't learn. I think it goes like this is irl too, even when it could happen sometimes that you disappointingly find out about your own bad trait (and then do something about it!)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 27 Oct

Ah! So your passion project is a work of fiction? Do you still spend time on it every day?

I think I have become so uptight with working and parenting that I feel I cannot just go with the flow with regard to time. Like I am very intentional about the way I spend my spare pockets of time. So, writing to discover the inner life of a character doesn’t gel with my headspace these days haha