Timeline for Using Myers–Briggs as a guide for character development?
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 23:55 | comment | added | Liquid | You may be a perfectionist, then (capitan obvious here). Still, it's fine if you want to improve - but going back to the question, I don't think the Myers–Briggs system should be reason enough to question your choices. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 23:53 | comment | added | BugFolk | It dawned on me a very calm extremely introverted type might not make the best former drill sergeant + I could get a lot more interesting story if he was a brigadier general vs a door guard. (seemed to interest me more at age 12 than now) Yeah there was a lot of evolution as I've grown up, matured and reflect on what I am writing. There's still plenty of room left for the story to develop though. I'm nowhere near where I want to be. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 23:50 | comment | added | BugFolk | I've kind of grown up with them as I've been working with this ongoing story project since I was in gradeschool. Granted there were many multi year long pauses and breaks, but it is fun watching how my characters change and evolve as I get a clearer perspective of my story. I know for sure the character in question went through several revisions. The character he is now is like a 180 of the character I had back when I started writing him in 1996. (He was an introverted, quite kind of almost stereotypical wise/ leader sort) but I grew bored of that and he evolved to something else. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 23:40 | comment | added | Liquid | If your characters are so "real" and well planned that you can imagine their reaction with this clarity, you should be fine (and you probably did a nice job already!). | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 23:22 | comment | added | BugFolk | "You're overthinking it..." indeed that would likely be my character's thought on this whole thing. Just for my own amusement I like to imagine my characters being with me as I force them to sit at the computer and test. My Soldier dude would likely roll his eyes, grin wryly and be "What difference does a few damn letters make?" I'm still the same guy. What great secret to life are you trying to resolve? "Oh well, if it would make you happy, I'll do it." Then he'd look at me genuinely puzzled why I'd obsess over the results afterwards. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 22:05 | history | answered | Liquid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |