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Thanks @JaneShuff. It’s really fascinating the amount of detail you’ve gone into, and you’re asking all sorts of questions that would never have occurred to me. I’ll have to ponder this for a while and try and apply it to a character. Many thanks.

Hi @katemachon. Here’s the character questionnaire I did for Dipsy. You’ll see that I ignored some of the questions – basically if nothing comes to mind, I don’t beat myself up about it. I also don’t worry about the answers being particaulrly interesting, so some of it is pretty dull. But I do find them helpful for clarifying and focussing…[Read more]

Thanks Sea! Maybe the bony restless fingers aren’t right… And she is named after a Teletubbies character!

Just skimmed this, Jane, but I love Dipsy!
Yep, I also found the ‘bony, restless fingers’ at odds with her large hips, (although possibly also influenced by her having the same name as a teletubby :))

Thanks @katemachon and @sandradavies. I realise that I should have given some context to this as it’s actually an excerpt from my WIP and, although this is the first time Dipsy actually appears, the reader would know her age and her relationship to the narrator. So sorry.

I will tidy up Dipsy’s character questionnaire and post it if you’d like,…[Read more]

Hi @JaneShuff – two brilliant characters here. One bursting off the page, and the other grinding their teeth in the background.

I’ve concentrated on the distinguishing features, and these are the impressions I got as I read:

The initial description of Dipsy’s (great name) clothes – ‘capacious’ and big pleated skirts’, made me think of someone on…[Read more]

Thanks WB. those writing exercises look like great fun.

Thank you @woolleybeans! You’re the best x

Oh WB I’m sorry. I’m sending you big squishy hugs too xx

Thanks WB!

Sending hugs xxxx

Thank you @raine. I”ll look forward to reading it!

Thinking about it, this psychology stuff is probably ‘inner worlds’ rather than the ‘outer worlds’ this unit was supposed to be focusing on. But imo the inner has to come first, right? So anyway, below are some rough notes from Stephanie Hutton’s Psychology of Character workshop (which, if you get the chance to go, is well worth doing). I’m no…[Read more]

Ooh yes that would be fab, thank you @raine. And yes, Julie C is the fabbest 🙂