My First Idea: The 100 Questions

I had this idea just now but it is probably something that is very important to anything as far as writing goes. In my readings and searches for ideas of how to greater expand my writing ability I have searched and found maybe a few sites and a handful of interesting articles Though I still need to delve deeper and maybe even *gulp* pay for something to better expand my understanding. I have, however, found in my readings a rather insightful and interesting tool that I will link thusly:

The 100 Questions List

This little beauty of a list is the 100 questions that you ask about a character you are writing about in order to better develop them as a believable character. Many of the questions are about events in the characters life, about their world view and such and all cut to the core of what makes a character what they are whether by just taking a few issues to be used as a character device (made to be a background character that does or doesn't get much development or is there purely as a tool to drive the plot or to provide something to conflict with the character and bring out traits in him) or fleshing them out for an entire person in their own right making them well rounded in all their ways (they are a main protagonists or an important secondary character heck even the villain depending on what story you want to write.)

Anyway, what I want to do with this list is flesh out a character I am working on at a site called Entervoid.com (nice place really though a bit NSFW in some places) that involves drawing and writing a character and pitting them, in comic book form, against another creators character with the intent to improve your skills as an artist/writer.

The character I am going to be using to flesh out is David Birch:

Here is a link to his Character Sheet.

David is my current and first character and though I have yet to make any real good comics with him quite yet. I have established him to a point where he could be a rather enjoyable character to write for I think but I still I feel he needs some expanding as far as his world view, and personal experiences in order to have long lasting marks on his personality and for those marks to better explain his personality.


So, I am going to subject him to the 100 Questions, one by one in order to flesh him out as well as his supporting cast (though mainly his Uncle Murphy up there in the orange.) Along with the improving on his design and my art in general I will pick different questions to explore about him picking them one at a time for each new post and expand upon it until I have made a solid who? what? where? when? and how? to guide me in his development as a character. They won't for the most part be in numerical order but more in order of importance to his character, hitting the issues that are the most important to him, essentially starting him out as a flat character) and then starting to expand into other topics to better round him out (or to just address the certain attributes about him that I will have to grapple with in each new battle on Entervoid.)

Of course I will be working on other characters aside from David for other such projects and such but David will be the main one and I welcome any feed back on these developments in the most civil and constructive ways possible. So please join me in this wondrous experiment and if you want try and join in with your own characters that you are writing, if you are writing at all.


Let the mind making.... BEGIN!