[Your Protagonist is a Piece of Shit and You Don’t Know It]

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got on this sub was this: when writing a character, you have to know what they’d do in an elevator when they’re sure no one else is around. We all know that that behavior is the MOST accurate look at your character’s personality. This is because the moment you put a character in a situation where they don’t have to be a people person or worry about how they’ll be viewed, you get a far clearer picture of what they’d ACTUALLY act like, free from the influence of other’s opinions. <br><br>Even if you don’t have to actually write out that scene, if you don’t have a relatively solid idea of your character’s behavior in that situation, chances are, you don’t actually know your character as well as you think you do. If you realize you don’t know that, that’s ok, it’s an easy fix, and an exercise well worth your time. <br><br>Especially for your protagonist, because chances are, your protagonist is a piece of shit and you don’t know it.