No offense to people who love those games, but I'd rather clean my garage. And if you could SEE my garage, you would know what a drastic statement this is.
SO -
This is something I do with each of my books, and each of my main characters.
Ready?
We're going to half what I normally do. I normally do 10.
1. She hates feeling like goldilocks 17 year old counterpart.
2. She will do just about anything but behave like a psychopath to not be touched,
3. She's an expert at blending.
4. She loves juicy fruit gum, bananas, cereal, and would live on the ocean for her whole life if she could.
5. She's desperately afraid to try to change anything, because hope is a scary thing, and she's sure she won't be able to help. She can't imagine a bigger failure than that.
List 5 things about your MC right NOW!
Don't think.
Just do it.
In the comments.
GO!
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1. she loves her sneakers
2. she loves to torture her brother
3. she is loyal to a fault
4. she has contemplated shaving her head a time or two because bald wouldn't stick out as much fuchsia.
5. she is afraid of letting everyone down.
1. he hates being called a kid.
2. he sweats...a lot!
3. he'd rather take whatever is thrown at him than have it put on someone he cares about.
4. he's never seen Weekend at Bernie's
5. he takes showers till all the hot water runs out.
1. She thinks the worst thing ever would be to relive her teenage years.
2. She wouldn't wish her best friend on her worst enemy.
3. She wishes she could stop being a doormat.
4. Nothing she does is ever good enough for her Dad.
5. She is stronger than she knows.
Um, she thinks Van Gogh has been speaking to her since she was born.
She thinks music isn't music unless it's accompanied by voice.
She wants to slash the throats of those who slashed hers.
She's in love with the harpist with the weird yellow eyes.
She wants to make silk out of snail trails.
He loves pizza and Red Bull
He hates asking (or accepting) help
He believes rules don't apply to him
He's not afraid of anything or anyone -- except his mother
He's memorized all of Shakespeare.
1. She extremely loyal to friends and family.
2. Doesn't have to stand out, but does it naturally.
3. Fun and laid back.
4. Refuses to be "weak" in any aspect of the word.
5. Has a talent for kicking ass! :)
1. She loves pottery
2. She looks up to her parents (gasp).
3. Boys are her weakness
4. She secretly just wants to make everyone happy.
5. She spends a lot of time concentrating on the past.
I've been plotting out a new WIP so this is a perfect exercise for me.
1. She will do anything to distance herself from her hippie parents. Including becoming a lawyer.
2. Her parents let her pick her own last name and she picked--SMITH.
3. She will give her friends everything she has, even if it puts her out.
4. She has a secret love of animals.
5. She always picks the wrong guys for her.
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1. He loves the thrill of the hunt
2. He is loyal and trusting, almost blindly
3. He dislikes water, is afraid of drowning
4. He needs the open sky and avoids being indoors
5. He's kind and soft spoken, but get him playing sports and you'll see a different side.
1. She is snark personified.
2. She appreciates a good scotch as well as frat boys who also appreciate a good scotch.
3. She loves the water but hates boats.
4. She roots for the Boston Red Sox. And the New England Patriots.
5. She will ultimately do the right thing— even if it's the very last thing she wants to do.
1. She is a total perfectionist, but she won't admit it because that would make her seem imperfect.
2. She lives with her father even though she's 23.
3. She never finishes things.
4. She hasn't really gotten over her eating disorder.
5. She's six feet tall and red-headed.
Only five--dang!
1. She cracks her knuckles when she's nervous.
2. She misses her mother more than anything in the world.
3. She doesn't trust easily.
4. She loves to run.
5. She may or may not be in love with a ghost.
I have so many more! You got me thinking! ;)
And I love your character. Just sayin'.
I seriously am wanting to read all of these books!!
SO fun, guys :D
1. He'd rather work out with other MMA fighters than get stuck trying to impress a pretty girl that makes him speechless.
2. He just found out his dad is alive and having a hard time dealing with it.
3. His hair is white and at 16, it makes him stand out in a crowd no matter how he tries to blend.
4. He doesn't like vampires.
5. His purple eyes disturb most people.
1. She can create compositions in her head.
2. She's the only red head in her family.
3. She can speak two languages.
4. Her first job was at the movie theatre.
5. Her parents own that movie theatre she worked in.
1. She just wants a job with air conditioning.
2. She has a terrible temper.
3. She's very short. (Like 5 foot.)
4. She's a leader, but she doesn't know it.
5. She really does believe in miracles even if she's never seen one.
I have two MCs, but I'll go with my boy:
1. He is obsessed with "normalcy"
2. His parents leave him alone too often bc they are saving the world as Doctors Without Borders
3. He doesn't like being exposed for his inadequacies by his annoyingly inadequate neighbor
4. He is very clean
5. He relishes his reputation.
Okay, here it goes:
1. Her mouth goes dry every time she gets nervous.
2. She hates zucchini.
3. She learns to be strong.
4. She likes gardening.
5. She thinks that guy over her team is hot. Just saying. ;)
1) She thinks she has her life all together.
2) She loves getting lost in music at the piano, but would rather hide behind it than be in front of people all alone.
3) She sort of lives vicasriously through her best friend, the outgoing lead singer for a band.
4) She thinks she's the queen of average.
5) She won't admi, even to herself, how much her dad's death five years ago still effects her.
1. She has no idea what her real face looks like.
2. Despite impossible odds, she still clings to the belief that her father is alive somewhere.
3. She has an overwhelming fear of trees.
4. Although her personality is timid and submissive, she's starting to realize she has the inner strength to take deadly action if her friends are threatened.
5. Her only living family member is not who she seems.
He's smart. Smarter than he thinks.
He's crazy about his wife.
He does not believe in miracles.
He worries a lot.
He's guided by emotion much more than he will admit.
1. She's painted her entire room cobalt blue.
2. Her twin brother died recently.
3. She's an insomniac.
4. She hates her mother.
5. She smokes pot.
6. She likes listening to Leonard Cohen when feeling blue.
7. She wears Dr. Suess Converse low tops.
8. Her favourite book is Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
9. She likes Electroswing music.
10. Caravan Palace is her favourite band.
1. She watches Dr Phil when she's home during the day
2. She hasn't quite figured out her mother yet, but knows enough to know the woman's insane
3. She prefers not to think about her big sister. at all. ever.
4. She's a mad music fan and its part of her everyday sustenance
5. She loves the beach but isn't much of a sunbather
6. She doesn't love her body with its stockiness & curves
7. She acts incredibly self-assured but her life is balanced on shards of glass
8. She's never really sure of anything except that she can't be sure of anything
9. There isn't really anyone in the world she trusts 100%
10. She goes through each day with a sense of dread in the pit of her stomach
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