Chapter 11 Personality Models
WRITERS MOVE BETWEEN TWO POLES: plot and character. (These poles, by the way, correspond to process and data.) Plot-style writing aims to develop an interesting plot and then create the characters to make the plot work. The other strategy is to create interesting characters and then see how they interact, expecting a plot to arise from the characters’ natural interactions. The plot-style approach is described in Chapter 12, “Drama Managers.” This chapter explains the character-driven approach.
The first step in this effort is creating a personality model, which is a data structure containing all the information needed to define a character. Differentiating between personality modeling as it’s used in psychology ...
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