The question I've found most useful to ask my characters is: "What are the top ten things you want?" -- and the really useful material comes from the ones they come up with toward the end of the list. For instance, one character's #10 was "a hot shower at the end of the day"; it told me more about him than all the rest of his list.
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Date: 2007-01-14 06:16 am (UTC)