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Can a personality test help with character Development in Novel Writing?
The Enneagram Personality test is kinda like your Myer's Briggs test except instead of attributes like introversion and how much your like structure... the enneagram personality test is all about your core fears, desires and motivations. And that's (probably) why writing software Dabble has an article on their blog talking all about how the enneagram personality test can help you develop compelling characters.
But is there any validity to any of this what so ever?
A few weeks ago I used Dabble's article about the Enneagram personality test to help guide my development of the two main characters for the novel we are constructing together. It was an interesting experience, and not the easiest, but it did get my thoughts flowing and added some new dimensions to these characters, even if we are still a far cry from having them fully fleshed out.
Whilst i used the Enneagram categories as a guide, i was assigning the categories myself, based on what little i'd established about my characters and mostly around what sounded fun to explore. So today... i wanted to put to the test just how accurate my allocations were... by doing an actual enneagram personality test on behalf of Agatha the Assassin and... well, i still haven't names our magician.
Dabble's article: www.dabblewriter.com/articles...
Read about the 9 enneagram personality tests: www.enneagraminstitute.com/ty...
Take the Enneagram personality test (it'll ask for an email before giving you your results fyi): enneagramuniverse.com/
23 май 2024
