My daughter and I have many things in common, including our love of taking quizzes. Today we spent three hours at the bookstore, taking personality quizzes from the American Girl quiz book collection. It was fun to see where our personalities are alike and where we are different. For example, she's much more likely to just tell her friends if she doesn't like something, while I tend to just pretend issues don't exist and hope that they'll melt away on their own. A recent e-mail she sent to a friend (which she shared with me) read: "I'm not going to do that because it would be a complete waste of my time."
One of the quizzes was on how well do you know your parent or child. That one was fun, too. She knows my birthday, my most worn-out phrases, my most favorite restaurant, and where I'd sit on a roller coaster. I loved it that she answered "wouldn't leave home without" with the answer looking nice. She knows what my dream job is, and she said that my title at work was "senior marketing executive," which made me smile.
As a writer, taking quizzes can give you hundreds of ideas for different characters, tying actions and motivations into personality types. Try taking a quiz as yourself and then as a character in your next writing project. You'll get all kinds of insights into who your character is and whether or not you're writing about a version of yourself or someone truly fictional.
Love,
Rachel
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