True story: when penning the more difficult RPs for Dragon I've been known to pace up and down smoking an imaginary cigarette. I don't normally go in for that kind of method writing (is that even a thing? It is now), but it worked out pretty well here.
When I was starting up as a writer I used to struggle with character voice a lot. Dialogue was pretty much the last thing I learned how to do; everyone ended up sounding like me (good thing I totally got over that problem snarf snarf) instead of like the character I was envisioning. Early on I found the best way to get a character across was to cheat. Instead of writing a situation and then trying to pen my character's reaction to it, I would decide first what personality traits I wanted to get across to the reader and then craft a circumstance specifically tailored to bring those personality traits out.
It's fucking terrible advice in the long term, but it's a quick fix that worked for me.
