They’re not super-formal exercises. It’s just sometimes when I like to take a pre-established character I like and write a little monologue for them. Helps me get in the mood to delve into characterization with “someone” I’m familiar with. This is handy, because the majority of what I write features characters I’ve created myself. Helps to see how other characters are built…I use the dialogue exercises as inspirational blueprints.
The quotes are riddled throughout my blog, but here’s some of them…
http://natecosboom.tumblr.com/post/9376177880/just-took-all-your-money-the-accounts-in
http://natecosboom.tumblr.com/post/9337521522/its-very-simple-superman-is-cancer-he-exists
http://natecosboom.tumblr.com/post/9255945294/its-not-that-i-cant-be-mean-i-could-cuss-a
http://natecosboom.tumblr.com/post/9046046035/i-was-eight-pa-was-working-the-field-hed-been