Setting the Scene
What defines a character study? From what I remember in the sporadic writing classes I took as a child (and helped along by the power of the google), a character study is an opportunity for a writer (and perhaps their audience?) to get to know someone. Their physical appearance and surroundings. A bit about their background. How they talk, how they think, what they think. What relationships they have with others. How their personality shapes them. What values they hold. What motivates them. What central conflicts they grapple with. How they grow. Is it weird to want to do a character study on yourself? That's where this idea for a blog arose. A place to write little vignettes of life lived or imagined. A place to try on the character(s) I imagine myself to be, the character(s) I have been, the character(s) I hope I might one day become. An imaginative space to work through the past and try on ideas of the future. All with the goal of, perhaps, figuring out where I've c...