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"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind, but not in one ahead" _ Bill McGlashen. Your protagonist is one or the other. Pick one, and roll with it. Go!
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Get your creative juices flowing with these similar writing prompts.
Choose a character and think of ways they'd react to things that happened during your (the writer's) day. Use your experiences, think how you reacted, and then how your character would have reacted. Possible events: cut off in traffic, caught in the rain, missed an important meeting, lost a valuable item.
Write about the hero of your story going on the most mundane errand you can think of. Rely solely on the character to make the story interesting.
Describe each day of the week as if it were a person. Give each one personality traits, a job, and a goal. Write a short story about them.
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It's impossible not to put some of yourself and your own life into your writing. But when you're writing about characters who you don't share much in common with, it can be tricky to authentically capture their "voice" and point of view. To develop this skill, fill out this character profile and base it on yourself. Then fill out a second one and make it as different from your own as possible.
Keep asking your characters why. Here's an example: