Writers, if you’re having problems finding personalities or personality quirks for your characters, use Snow White’s seven dwarfs as guides.
Sneezy is always sick— a complainer, a hypochondriac who annoys people with never ending stories of his physical woes.
Sleepy is too buzzed out, stoned, or distracted to ever get the point or be taken seriously. He’s the one in the crowd who always says “I don’t get it” at the end of the joke or “Huh?” when something is described or explained to him. You like them but you wouldn’t trust them with your credit card.
Dopey is the follower who does everything he’s told because he knows he’s not the sharpest pencil in the drawer. Etcetera.
Do little personality sketches of these guys when you’re stuck on your characterizations. Almost invariably you’ll find all sorts of things in those sketches that you can assign to your own people and their stories
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