Worldbuilding at the Intersections

Common advice in improv theater — where the performers play characters they’ve never embodied before doing unplanned things — is to take a strong position on whatever the scene is about. If the scene is about strawberries, your character might love strawberries — more than anything in the world — or hate them, and have a strong reason for either. Why does the character feel that way? Perhaps her mother made strawberry pie each Friday. Why does that matter to her? Perhaps there’s something she desperately wants to express to her mother, who recently passed away — while picking strawberries.

Half the rationale for this advice is that it’s much easier to play a character when you have a defined vantage point from which to view a scene.

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