Modeling personality for fiction
Neurotic, extraverted, open to experience, agreeable, conscientious. What follows is an over-simplified model of human personality based on these influences: This article on a study that identified four basic personality types: role-model, reserved, average, and self-centered. You can click the link for more, but I was attracted to this theory because it seems to be among the only theories that a scientist would call… you know, science. This video by LocalScriptMan on how the Enneagram is useful for writers if you cut all the B.S. and focus on the core idea that everyone has one of nine fundamental desires. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs … which seems to me to consist of more or less the same desires identified by the Enneagram, just in a different order. This is not intended to be a model of personality for real human beings. Please try not to make one of those viral personality quizzes out of this. The point of this exercise is to help me quickly generate ideas for interesting fiction