Feo Takahari
Auror
I recently realized that one of my writing tricks is something I've never heard recommended, or even heard of anyone else doing. I figured I might as well post about it and see what people think of it.
Whenever I'm writing an ensemble cast, and one of the characters has less personality than the others, I flesh them out by writing one or two scenes as if they're the main character. I hand the perspective over to them, give them primary problem-solving duties, show their conversations with other characters, and so on and so forth. I may or may not use these scenes in the final draft, but the effort involved in figuring out what the character would and wouldn't do helps me in writing their actions throughout the story.
Have any of you ever tried this? How did it go?
Whenever I'm writing an ensemble cast, and one of the characters has less personality than the others, I flesh them out by writing one or two scenes as if they're the main character. I hand the perspective over to them, give them primary problem-solving duties, show their conversations with other characters, and so on and so forth. I may or may not use these scenes in the final draft, but the effort involved in figuring out what the character would and wouldn't do helps me in writing their actions throughout the story.
Have any of you ever tried this? How did it go?