2023 Character-Building Challenge: Day 4
Make the most of March by participating in the first ever Character-Building Challenge. Writer’s Digest provides free daily tasks for the first 10 days of March to help writers unlock compelling new characters. For Day 4, have your characters share what they think of each other.
For the fourth day of this challenge, sit both the characters you interrogated down and have them share what and how they think about each other. Maybe they're friends; maybe they're rivals; and maybe they have no concept of each other at all. Let each tell you what they think about each.
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Here's what my characters think of each other:
What Abraham thinks of Max...
Yeah, I know Max. Mr. Football and speed guy. Some people call him Mad Max, because he's a little wild and sometimes loses his temper. I've never really hung out with him, because he's a sprinter, and I'm more of an endurance guy. Plus, he's a grade above me and cool, and well, I'm not especially cool, I guess.
What Max thinks of Abraham...
I don't know much about Abraham, except that we used to call him Honest Abe all the time. And he threw up in the middle of gym class once after getting hit with a volleyball. It was crazy. Also, I think he's in a band or something. I should probably hang out with him sometime actually.
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
