Tip #455: Character masks

People in real life wear masks to protect their real feelings and vulnerability.
Masks peeling away is a dramatic device

http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/12/14/50-narrative-devices-for-non-fiction-storytellers/#more-5652 Slide 26

Tip #210: Character subtext

there is a very clear, often palpable gap between one’s inner thoughts and... exterior behavior and attitude...

When creating a character, consider

The extent to which someone – including your hero and your villain – recognizes the gap between their true thoughts, beliefs, preferences and comfort zones, and the way they choose to behave or appear in spite of them...

http://storyfix.com/game-changer-create-an-inner-dialogue-within-your-hero-and-your-villain


The gap tends to be related to:

The tension between who you are and who the world wants you to be

http://cherylklein.com/electric-eels/

Tip #195: Complicating things

There have to be (at least) two things going on {in each scene/story} that can play off against each other, inform each other, head off and rejoin each other, twist around and complicate.

http://patricksamphire.blogspot.com/2012/01/complicating-things.html

Tip #142: Peer Pressure & expectations

Are you the same person when you are home lounging around on your own as when you're out on a date or at a company party? Are you the same person around your friends on a Saturday night as with your kids?


different characters bring out different sides of your protag

Quote 1: http://paranormalpointofview.blogspot.com/2011/07/when-your-character-doesnt-act-like.html
Quote 2: http://mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com/2011/07/characters-who-push.html?spref=tw (comment by Lisa Gail Green)

Tip #108: Reader assumptions

a good writer will use an audience’s innate desire to fill gaps in knowledge to trick them with their own assumptions.

http://writeanything.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/subtext-the-most-critical-tool-in-the-story-teller%E2%80%99s-box/