Character Upside Down Pyramid

This is a technique I use in order to develop the personality and physical features of a character, also how much description and showing of that trait should be used throughout the story.

1) Start with a box across the page, here put the first impression of the character

2) under it draw a smaller box, here put the underlying elements of the character, that doesnt show on first meetings.

3) From then on put different characteristics that you want to appear in the story but in order of how much you want it to show, and how much your character shows it.

Just a structural technique I stumbled across.

That sounds neat, Adam - good for depth.

...Is it rather like: [.....................] (box 1)
---------------------------[........] (2)

-----------------------------[...] (3)

...?

(I've done something similar to this...though not with boxes. It's an amusing exercize to do from varied character's POV - depending upon their perspicasity it comes out differently. But from an objective narrrative standpoint - I've missed that. ^_^'')

Yes, thats the one Imp!