What is your character’s name? Does the character have a nickname? Emma Chloe Sudi. (Ems or Ma.)

• What is your character’s hair color? Eye color?
Black hair, brown eyes.
• What kind of distinguishing facial features does your character have? her wide eyes. She has quite soft features.

• Does your character have a birthmark? Where is it? What about scars? How did he get them?
A birthmark on the left of her cheek, browny tan mark. Not big. Medium size.
• Who are your character’s friends and family? Who does she surround herself with? Who are the people your character is closest to? Who does he wish he were closest to?
She is friends with not many people, since her birthmark puts them off. She will be friends with Angelo though. She has a younger brother, who's dating Angelo's sister. A mum and a dad. A dog called Rusty.
• Where was your character born? Where has she lived since then? Where does she call home? She was born in Eastbourne. Lives in Brighton.

• Where does your character go when he’s angry? She goes to her room, or locks herself in the bathroom.

• What is her biggest fear? Who has she told this to? Who would she never tell this to? Why? She's scared of being alone. She has told no one.... YET.

• Does she have a secret? Well... She is adopted.

• What makes your character laugh out loud? People being clumsy.

• When has your character been in love? Had a broken heart? Never. But she will.

Then dig deeper by asking more unconventional questions:

• What is in your character’s refrigerator right now? On her bedroom floor? On her nightstand? In her garbage can? Fridge: Salads and desserts, The usual. Bedroom floor: HAir extensions and clothing. Very messy. Nightstand: Bible and hair bobbles. Bin: Strands of hair and dye packets.

• Look at your character’s feet. Describe what you see there. Does he wear dress shoes, gym shoes, or none at all? Is he in socks that are ratty and full of holes? Or is he wearing a pair of blue and gold slippers knitted by his grandmother? She wears a pair of usual ballarina pumps. Black, leather, one strap across the foot. With a pair of red and black-striped socks.

• When your character thinks of her childhood kitchen, what smell does she associate with it? Sauerkraut? Oatmeal cookies? Paint? Why is that smell so resonant for her? She smells the smell of rancid trash. From her old home. Dun dun dunnn!

• Your character is doing intense spring cleaning. What is easy for her to throw out? What is difficult for her to part with? Why? She can throw out old hair extensions. But she cannot throw out old family pictures from her other family. It's the only memory she has of them.

• It’s Saturday at noon. What is your character doing? Give details. If he’s eating breakfast, what exactly does he eat? If she’s stretching out in her backyard to sun, what kind of blanket or towel does she lie on? She's lying on her black-sheeted bed, head propped up by black pillows, writing in her diary.

• What is one strong memory that has stuck with your character from childhood? Why is it so powerful and lasting? The social worker taking her away roughly by the hand.

• Your character is getting ready for a night out. Where is she going? What does she wear? Who will she be with? She will be on her own, wearing her hair down and long, to her waist, a long, black, satin skirt, she made, with a pair of long, red and black-striped stockings and a pair of school shoes with a red jumper on.