https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220124-why-people-arent-as-picky-in-love-as-they-think
Something to keep in mind regarding characters.
Tag: characters
Think about this and characters in stories
Tactics to be more influential at work:
What tactics would fit with your characters best?
Which ones wouldn’t work for one of your characters?
Which one(s) would be most effective for one of your characters to influence another of your characters?
Which one(s) would influence your readers most?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90703987/use-these-tactics-to-be-more-influential-at-work
‘The only way to write for teenagers is to spend so long in your own memories that you are drowning in shame’ — Caroline O’Donoghue – Independent.ie
What happens in your brain when you ‘lose yourself’ in fiction: Study examines fans of ‘Game of Thrones’ characters — ScienceDaily
Something to keep in mind if your story includes raising a baby
Is the Western way of raising kids weird? – BBC Future
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children
Applies to fantasy and science fiction, too. How do human and alien races raise babies? What impact does that have on culture and characters?
Think about it.
Something to think about re characters
The 16 facial expressions most common to emotional situations worldwide — ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201216155203.htm
Why you should hire me as your sidekick
Inspired by a writing exercise (write a letter to the hero applying to be their sidekick) at the end of a Hawaii Fiction Writers work shop on buddies and sidekicks:
“When you’re captured by the bad guys, tied up and being tortured to reveal where our client is hidden, I would shoot you in the head – then myself – to protect our client’s life.”
BBC – Future – What it takes to stand up to authority
The Republican Party needs to do this to Trump:
Us writers need this, too. How many stories have one or more characters that have to stand up to an authority of some sort (legitimate or illegitimate)?
27 states of human emotions
Not only that, but emotions are interconnected and continuous (not discrete, quantized states.
Keep in mind for creating characters and how they feel and behave.
Emoji fans take heart: Scientists pinpoint 27 states of emotion
Big Five personality traits – Wikipedia
A newer way to look at personality: traits instead of types:
Dancing Treefrog 