Lonely Heart Character Creation

Creating my lonely heart character has been really fun so far, the opportunity to have my own say over a whole character, being able to invent everything about them has allowed me to start being creative with no restrictions.
I chose the ad 'I like my men like my kebabs, found by surprise on a drunken night out covered in too much tahini. In not long from now I will have discarded you onto the pavement on life, but for now, you're a perfect complement to a perfect evening.'
Originally, I created this character to be a complete party-goer who wanted to live recklessly. But then as we had to answer loads of questions to their history, I found that there could be a lot more to this character than what is on the surface.
From the questions she became a mid thirties single woman, never had a long term relationship, a couple's counsellor who lived on her own in a studio flat and loved a drink.
Evaluation:
The background writing, even if it did take a long time, made us really delve into our characters past, then what came out of it would shape how they acted in the present day. Learning about their history would help us with how we would react to people/situations/places, and makes people 3D instead of 2D. People are always far more complicated and have many layers to their personalities than they let on, which is how this then developed my character to a deeper level.
I found that her being a couples counsellor didn't really fit with the rest of her, so I changed her profession to a writer, but a writer for a magazine. Changing her profession led to the development of her again, I chose her to write for a magazine that was hardly known, where her column is just from the back page where the prospects of admitting she was a failed writer were too close to bear. She would have to have a purpose to write, and I chose, with her being a single 30 something, that she would write to aim to be an inspiration to other middle aged single women, that they need not to be ashamed and take life with a pinch of salt.
With each new thing that I found, the questions exercise made me think that each decision I made had to have a reason, and that led to more quirks to my character.

You are enough!

The exercise of writing down all our strengths, what we're good at, what we enjoy and what we think we need to work on was really useful.
To be honest, self evaluation I find quite difficult, so it took me a while to write things down. But as I began to start self evaluating, it started to get easier. When we'd finished, it was great to look back at what I'd written and what others had. It got us to start seeing what other people's strengths were, so when it came to devising work, and working as a company, we would have a better understanding of how to work efficiently together.
Also, by having our individual sheets allows us to regularly look back at them, seeing if we have improved on any points, write new ones, and add new strengths or skills that we've acquired over the course.
Being a self-evaluation task helped me start to think more analytically, and was a good introduction to start evaluating myself in lessons/exercises etc. where hopefully it'll become easier as well as more helpful.