Interview character

Inspired from “Character Profile” by Patrick Scalisi in the November issue of The Writer magazine. Interview your main character or supporting characters.

If you have a fictional character, you can work with that.

If you are writing about something that really happened, you can use those people as your characters.

If neither of those work, use a photo . . . develop a picture into flesh and blood characters.

For your fictional character:  Interview him or her as a journalist would. . . but not at the age they are in your story.  If they are older . . . interview the younger version of your character.  If they are young. . . imagine what they might be like as an older person.

For your real-life person:  Same thing. . . have an imaginary interview of him or her. . . you can pick the age. . . younger if you know them as an older person.  Older if you know them as a young person (someone from school no longer interact with, for example).

Same with the photo . . . whatever age the person appears to be . .  .interview him or her as an older or younger person.

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