Career questions tagged personality-development
How not to make an army of "me" for Original characters?
Sometimes in English class, I have to do a prompt with specific needs (vocabulary, setting, etc.). I like to use my characters to act out the scene, but I've noticed recently the characters personalities are not acting how they were supposed to be. I know they say to let your characters take the lead, but they all end up reflecting my personality. For example: I have a set of twin characters, and they were supposed to be iconic opposites. One was named Kiho. He was supposed to be shy and friendly, but in my recent skits he's been morphing into my personality, (snappy, feels the need to be independent, cold.) My characters get into frequent arguments, and it's very strange for some of them because they weren't supposed to be like that. They're all becoming cold and mean, and even I don't really know how to be sweet or nice much. I don't have many friends (separate topic, not important) so I can't get any POV. I still haven't been able to understand other kinds of personalities yet, and I just don't want to be stereotypical. How do I fix them to not be me?
