Character-creation questions

I thought I had a pretty good handle on Raoul's personality, but running through this list of questions that are supposed to help you flesh out your character before you even start to write leaves me pretty much at a loss ;-p

(Which makes me more than ever sceptical about the 'character-sheet' approach to putting people in your stories, as opposed to my own instinctive technique of letting details 'emerge' about them as I go along, i.e. making up the backstory as I go!)

What does your character want more than anything else in the world right now, and why?

Right now? He wants to be on board the boat that's going to be putting out from the edge of the pack-ice -- because Erik is doing who-knows-what horrible things to Christine, or has already done them, and he, who made a big song and dance about wanting to protect her, is trapped hundrds of miles away.
( Read more... )