The A to Z Blog Challenge 2022: the Letter P

Snow! Can you believe it? They’re calling for rain and snow today. UGH! I wish Mother Nature would get the message. I love snow–on Christmas Eve! It’s April. Enough is enough! It’s just after seven, and the roofs and grass are covered. This sucks!

Today letter is P. For me, in my writing the letter P stands for personality. Personality can be defined as the individual differences in the way a person thinks, feels, behaves, and reacts in different settings. Depending on which guru you ask, there are any number of personality types. The Myers Briggs tests classify people into 16 different categories.

Another way to look at this might be to examine various personality traits and see which fit and which don’t.

When I create a character, the most important thing for me is that the character be believable. Often times, I start by identifying them with someone I personally know, and then I build on that. Words that I might use in their description include:

According to the Myers-Briggs test, I’m INFJ

This comes close to describing me. In my first career, I was a teacher for more than 35 years, then I spent almost 20 years as an Elder with my church. Now, I’m an author. How does your personality define you?

What’s your personality?

Published by Susanne Matthews

Hi! I live in Eastern Ontario. I'm married with three adult children and five wonderful grandchildren. I prefer warm weather, and sunshine but winter gives me time to write. If I’m listening to music, it will be something from the 1960s or 1970s. I enjoy action movies, romantic comedies, but I draw the line at slasher flicks and horror. I love science fiction and fantasy as well. I love to read; I immerse myself in the text and, as my husband says, the house could fall down around me, and I’d never notice. My preferences are as varied as there are genres, but nothing really beats a good romance, especially one that is filled with suspense. I love historical romance too, and have read quite a few of those. If I’m watching television, you can count on it being a suspense — I’m not a fan of reality TV, sit-coms, or game shows. Writing gives me the most pleasure. I love creating characters that become real and undergo all kinds of adventures. It never ceases to amaze me how each character can take on its own unique personality; sometimes, they grow very different from the way I pictured them! Inspiration comes from all around me; imagination has no bounds. If I can think it, imagine it, I can write it! View more posts

2 thoughts on “The A to Z Blog Challenge 2022: the Letter P”

We were 97 degrees today here in Phoenix and you are mentioning you might get snow 🙂 I remember taking this personality test a few years ago. I don’t remember what I scored on it though 🙂 We recently at a class at church took this test and I scored being an otter. It did fit me to a “T” with the traits described.

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