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I personally feel most connected with my characters and find out more about them faster when I play some scenes from my book in movie-form in my mind. I imagine what my character is going through, put myself into their shoes, and try to predict how they’d feel, think, and act in different situations. Even going about in real life, I sometimes wonder during certain situation, “How would [this character] react?”

I’m in between a plotter and pantser too. It’s a hard in-between to be in. I feel like I have to have some sort of an outline or I’ll hit dead ends when writing the first draft, but yet outlining can sometimes feel like a chore. I feel like there’s not a lot of advice out there for us in-betweens. 🙂

My brainstorming often begins with the characters. I suggest that maybe you do a simple character sheet: I like to include their name, age, personality, role in the story, lie that they believe/truth they need, thing they want/thing they need. It’s not nearly as much as those several page questionnaires that plotters use. 😉

And sometimes, you find out a lot more about your characters when you’re actually writing about them. 🙂

Aw, I hate to hear you say that writing may not be your thing. 🙁 I mean, first drafts were meant to be changed. It’s your book, you can change what you want. 😉 Things often change and take different forms when we’re writing and editing…

btw, I have trouble with my books ending up waaaaay shorter than expected, so let me know if you have any questions about that too. 😉

I hope some of this made sense. 🙂