This activity will help you bring depth to your characters. 

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Take a simple object such as a rock, a toy, or a pencil, and bring it to life.

If the object could talk what would it say? What does it think and feel? What does it do all day, is it helpful or discarded, what does it observe, and what are it's reactions? 

Develop a character profile and perhaps a back-story.  Write an inner monologue for this object.

The act of personified an object will stretch your imagination and trigger you to recognize often overlooked traits, thereby training you to develop your characters on a deep level. 

Today's task is to do just that- Personify an object. See my example [Shoe.](https://steemit.com/fiction/@arbitrarykitten/shoe-5-minute-freewrite)  Note how Shoe has feelings much like any human. 

After you have a few of these under your belt it's time to step it up. Brainstorm a list of the most detached, impersonal, and dispassionate objects you can think of and challenge yourself to bring life and character into increasingly difficult inanimate objects.

Happy writing Steemit!


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