Steven, curiosity is so important to creating a compelling character.

Steven, curiosity is so important to creating a compelling character. In fact in my Prep workshop — and how I approach my own ‘breaking story’ process — is to ask these question:

• Who are they?
• How are they?
• Why are they?
• Where are they?

Each question acts like a drill to dig down into the character and determine what’s going on in their psyche. Just in general, I think curiosity is key to character development. Then when working with the character in the page-writing process, to use scenes and incidents in Act One to create questions about them, especially the Protagonist.

So once again, I’m in alignment with you!