The Character Therapist: What Your Character's Grandparents Say About Him or Her

Thursday, November 24, 2011

What Your Character's Grandparents Say About Him or Her

A great question to ask your character to determine how much influence a character's ancestors had on him or her is this: "What kind of lives did your grandparents live?" There are four general answers (according to my transactional analysis research)

----UPDATE!!----

Clearly, I goofed! I will be posting about this next week, so please come back then!

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skowen 8p · 696 weeks ago

Home in Dallas (Highland Park), lake house in Brands Crossing (town founded by ancestors).
Grandfather head of development/construction/management company in Dallas (family company). Native Texan--ancestors go back to War of Independence with Mexico. After retirement move permanently to Brands Crossing, becomes involved in local politics.
Grandmother gardener, cook, book lover. Grew up in New Orleans. Ancestors early French plantation owners in Louisiana.
Grandparents married over fifty years when grandfather died after car crash.

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