10 Questions for Your Main Character

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Get ready to truly understand your main character with these ten interview questions.
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@RedGallardo 11 месяцев назад

I think it's important to ask the main character: "why has Palpatine returned? What made him do that? Wasn't he happy being dead?"

@JGD714 11 месяцев назад

I love that in this guy's videos there's always someone referencing how Palpatine is back in relation to the video.

@SORRYDADDY942 Год назад

Literally here, pretending to be my protagonist, Lucas Bruce. Only, it's hard to say how I feel about him. His biggest mistake was trusting someone, but his biggest success was trusting someone as well. He's in a hole surrounding people full of some that say they'll help, but don't, and some who actually try to help, but can't. So it's up to him to try to pull himself out.

@starwing2814 Год назад

These are great questions to ask! I've been currently having trouble understanding my protagonist.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty Год назад

Thrilled they helped!

@jyjaeskz 10 месяцев назад

At first I was like "there's no way I could even answer these questions about myself how am I supposed to be able to answer them for a character" And then I emotionally eviscerated myself by answering them

@MelanieNLee 9 месяцев назад

I think I'm about to go down that same path.

@jyjaeskz 9 месяцев назад

@@MelanieNLee Good luck

@reubenmanzo2054 10 месяцев назад

If you direct these questions towards yourself, it can actually serve as a preliminary to therapy.

@thedude110 9 месяцев назад

I think it's also interesting to think about these questions in two different moments: at the start of the story and at the end of it. You might also get a much more solid idea of the character arc and how they've changed

@MelanieNLee 9 месяцев назад

I need to listen to this video again because I ended asking those questions about myself...and I don't know some of the answers!

@bbattle26 11 месяцев назад

YES YES YES. Thank you. I could not find a better formula for starting character development.

@THE_KIWI213 Месяц назад

From the two points I'm going to be acting as my character: 1-not leaving my friends behind and escaping alone 2-during my life it'd be being a good sibling, after that it'd be reviving me 3-to get revenge (spoiler alert i DID) 4-although hasn't happened in the story , if i was to choose between my revenge or saving my sister I'd save her 5-that the next generation are doomed 6-my worst enemy (spoiler alert the next generation weren't so doomed after all) 7-the one where we were never 3nslav3d 8-my sister getting killed in front of my eyes 9-sacrificing my peace and quite to help the younger generation deal with a multiversal threat , didn't regret it much thi 10-my sister , in a brotherly way

@Tasorius 9 месяцев назад

One of my characters would say that he is doing what he does because: "I will keep moving forward". That may be true for all of them... Doing something for the sake of doing it and to move forward.

@lyxgacha6782 6 месяцев назад

“I will keep moving forward until all my ennemies are destroyed”

@jesusromanpadro3853 5 месяцев назад

Willndo this for my characters. Thanks for the recommendation.

@VexNovaYT 9 месяцев назад

I love that this is like a personal Q/A. You Ask and Answer Yourself. So an A/A???

@thomasswritingjourney 4 года назад

Fantastic video! Like to see more of these questions, not only for the heroes but for the villains as well. Make more videos 👏👍This will really help plotting my story better.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 года назад

Glad it helped! You can also use these questions for creating villains (or any other characters) I'll get more questions out in a future video. Thanks!

@JosephSchneider26 10 месяцев назад

I am currently doing the final edit of my upcoming fantasy adventure (unfortunately in German). My protagonist, Pearl, has been a slave for most of his adult life, while coming from a wealthy aristocratic family who's been wiped out by extremists. He has joined a blood brotherhood with 7 guys from another culture, because they freed him from slavery. This story was inspired by the Three Musketeers, so I decided to make the newbie the center of the story and the 1st-person-narrator. But Pearl's inside world leaves some work to be done. Thanks for these excellent questions! I'm gonna use them for sure.

@4u5t 4 года назад

Hey Brandon. I've been watching your stuff for a while now and it has helped a lot. You're making some really good videos. I'm not sure if you've covered this subject at all, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts or tips on worldbuilding, and how to create a compelling world that functions well. I'd love to see something on it in the future if it's a topic that interests you. I'd also love to hear more questions for main characters.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 года назад

Thanks for the feedback! And I'll look into a worldbuilding video. That's one of the areas where I struggle most, so studying up on it would probably help us both. Good call!

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 года назад

Hey Björck, I just uploaded a video on world building (see below). Hope it helps! And thanks for the suggestion! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sfcgw2zWVFY.html

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 года назад

Would you like to see another video like this one? Let me know! Also, check out the book The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass for great insight into writing characters (two of my tips were actually borrowed from his book): amzn.to/2Ed64jm

@KryoTronic 8 месяцев назад

I take notes on all your videos, you are an amazing teacher, thanks for these great videos!

@TheMasterAlbert 11 месяцев назад

Actually good questions, thanks. It seems that I subconsciously already incorporated most into my Character, because if not, that would make him simply boring. The hardest part for me is not to explain how my character is, but WHY. What realistic scenario e.g. would make the character hate himself but love his family, without sounding too cliché but still realistic? But answering these questions seems to be also the most fun about writing.

@berry186 4 года назад

Thanks. I would love to see more questions. These help greatly.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 года назад

I'll keep them coming--thanks!

@artemisnite 10 месяцев назад

Immediately extremely helpful! Thanks so much!

@ludovico6890 10 месяцев назад

I know my MC, but I discover things about him every time I write.

@FellowRabbit 10 месяцев назад

Honestly I'd also aim theses questions at the main antagonist too!

@DB-zo5ng Год назад

A really good set of questions - thank you.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@vpnightshadepersonal Год назад

Thank you! Great video! All excellent questions.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty Год назад

Glad they helped--thanks for watching!

@ComandaKronikk 2 года назад

Thanks Brandon another great video!!

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy 3 года назад

Great questions.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 3 года назад

Thanks!

@maryanayurchyshyna852 11 месяцев назад

Can you make a video about a reading list of best reference books for writers. Want to learn about technical terms for common elements/scenarios that pop up in stories (so that I sound smart in subjects that I know nothing about with very little work). Thanks!

@curtiselmore727 Год назад

nice work, man

@WriterBrandonMcNulty Год назад

Thanks!

@andrefifer 4 года назад

hey, I am brazilian and your channel is awesome

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 года назад

Thanks Andy!

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 года назад

Also, let me know if you have and writing-related subjects you'd like to see me cover

@UncleFexxer 11 месяцев назад

Excellent questions for adult characters, but what they're young? If your main character is a kid, or even a teenager? 18 y/o's usually have no solid idea what their goals are; they're just going through the motions of what they're being told to go through (i.e. college etc) until they finally figure out what they want to do with their life. These are big questions that most youth haven't even begun to seriously think about.

@dylancurry5298 10 месяцев назад

You’re thinking too technically about what constitutes a “goal”. First of all, young characters can have all sorts of specific goals that are both similar to adult goals and unique to being young, i.e. dating their crush, doing well in school, being independent from their parents, etc. But in a broader sense, a young character’s goal could just be “figure out what I want to do with my life as I grow up”. Watch any coming-of-age movie and you’ll see that that’s often the primary goal of the protagonist, usually along with some of the other more specific ones I mentioned. Teenagers certainly have a lot of growing to do but that doesn’t mean they aren’t people with their own wants and needs

@erikadancerqueen 4 года назад

sequel please

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 года назад

Way ahead of you: Part 2 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OSbCYok5M-0.html Part 3 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OE1RpL4Gbi8.html