Add your own tasks to this list!

D1 - Who is your main character(s)? Write about what is most important, interesting, and flawed about this character. Ignore plot for now.

D2 - Write a character sketch of one of your main character(s).

D3 - Write a character sketch of one of your main character(s).

D4 - Write a character sketch of one of your minor character(s).

D5 - Write a character sketch of one of your minor character(s).

D6 - Write a story that happened to one of your main characters before your novel. (This is for background and won’t appear in your novel.)

D7 - Write a few pages about your main character that “show rather than tell” about their personality, what’s important to them, their hopes and fears, etc. (This is for background and won’t appear in your novel.)

D8 - Choose a character from your novel and write a page of dialogue with that person talking to a stranger they meet at a bus stop (or another stranger of your choice.)