What’s your character’s favorite song?
What’s the one song they put on repeat and can’t get enough of; the one they feel in their bones every time it plays?
The music someone likes tells a lot about them. It could influence their style, their mood, their way of life. But someone’s favorite song tells even more. It tells what they relate to, where they are in life underneath what they show on the outside. It encompasses five minutes of who they are at their core.
It is important to know your character’s favorite genre of music, especially if they are a “music person” (although I think we all are, to some extent), but it is even more important to use those music choices to better understand your character. Music can give them voice, if you let it.
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