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A popular get-to-know-your-character exercise consists of writing 100 declarative sentences about your character. I've never successfully completed this for my characters, but I figure I can for me.

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100 Declarative Sentences About Martha Flynn

1. I live in San Francisco.
2. I am half-Vietnamese and half-Scots-Irish.
3. I used to want to be a mermaid princess. I was four.
4. I sing along to show tunes during long car rides.
5. I develop a rash on my palms when I am around clutter.
6. I have crossed the United States several times by car and by train.
7. I love my nose. You can't convince me it's anything but perfect.
8. I am reluctant to adapt to new technology. It must be forced on me by someone I am married to.
9. I have a fetish for pretty cookbooks.
10. I am allergic to alcohol.
11. I speak really really really really fast. Even when I am not nervous or excited.
12. I am obsessed with apocalypse survival scenarios.
13. I prefer rice over bread or pasta.
14. I do not own a single turtleneck.
15. I love to dance. I'm not good at it. But that's not going to stop me.
16. I cannot tell the difference between regular TV and HDTV.
17. I am a scam artist. I like to collect money under one pretense and use it for something else.
18. I almost always carry a pocket knife and matches.
19. I prefer seeing movie releases at the midnight showing.
20. I have lame personal care habits. I don't wash my face or use lotion or any of that crap.
21. I am extremely allergic to most animals which is a shame because I lurve them.
22. I do not have any sisters, but my sister-in-laws make up for that.
23. I own four TiVos.
24. I am a mosquito magnet.
25. I don't have "favorite" things—like colors or movies or food because I like changing my mind.
26. I suck at RPG video games.
27. I love playing and watching poker.
28. I like to climb through playground equipment.
29. I avoid large stores like grocery/department/hardware stores in favor of small shops.
30. I love the environment, but I hate nature. I don't care about beautiful sunsets or hiking to panoramic views.
31. I have a super cute sneeze. Or so I'm told. Repeatedly.
32. I fell off a top bunk as a kid.
33. I don't get professional sports. I just don't.
34. I have short, stubby eyelashes.
35. I am kind of in love with my niece and nephews.
36. I get mean and short-tempered in hot weather.
37. I might be addicted to coffee.
38. I fell off a roof as a teen and dislodged a brick on the way down which then hit me on the head. That sucked.
39. I have never tried cigarettes or drugs.
40. I own way too many cardigans.
41. I am a sucker for pretty paper and stationary.
42. I love staying in fancy hotel rooms and ordering room service.
43. I often have no awareness of my surroundings.
44. I have three brothers.
45. I like to directly ask for what I want and to be asked in return. I find hinting and subtlety annoying.
46. I like citrus smells.
47. I would wear pajamas all day if I could.
48. I was a kid vacationing in Hawaii with my parents over Christmas when I put 2 and 2 together about Santa Claus.
49. I was held over a volcano opening by my older brothers as a kid in Hawaii.
50. I kinda hate Hawaii.
51. I pick my boogers sometimes. I really don't see why it's such a big icky deal.
52. I haven't flown in an airplane since turning 22.
53. I miss button fly jeans.
54. I really don't get the appeal of deli meat.
55. I have swum from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco.
56. I will giggle over a funny line in a movie or book for weeks.
57. I have symmetry OCD.
58. I rarely get attached to material goods—not even sentimental photos—but I hate giving away my books.
59. I have pierced ears.
60. I have really, really lousy handwriting.
61. I am published in several prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals under another name.
62. I get caught up in the lives of fictional characters like they are real people.
63. I cannot sing in tune.
64. I am a total foodie. If it's delicious and I haven't tried it then I need to fix that.
65. I can easily watch over thirty hours of television programming a week.
66. I can't bake to save my life. "Measuring" ingredients is too formal.
67. I am not a writer who argues with their characters.
68. I am a terrible student, and will ditch class at every opportunity.
69. I make my own vegetable stock regularly.
70. I take terrible and boring photos.
71. I love surfing, snowboarding and rock climbing even though I suck at all of them.
72. I have been through domestic violence counselor certification training.
73. I almost never take home leftovers.
74. I like vacations where I sit on the beach or by the pool to read and nap.
75. I can bend my thumbs all the way back.
76. I love using fake eyelashes.
77. I own my own poker table with felt top.
78. I love to grow my own food.
79. I adore having my head massaged.
80. I like the idea of scrapbooking more than the execution.
81. I have a weird need to live near bodies of water.
82. I do not stand in place when I brush my teeth. I walk around the house.
83. I have lived on three continents.
84. I like to listen to the same song or read the same book over and over again when I first fall in love with it.
85. I am not a fan of anecdotal evidence to disprove a point. Particularly personal anecdotes.
86. I have driven a car only on its two left wheels before setting it back down.
87. I dislike traditional American breakfast foods including pancakes, waffles and eggs. "Brinner"? Blech.
88. I know how to read piano sheet music.
89. I cannot sleep with socks on, no matter how cold it is.
90. I wish I had plum colored hair and violet eyes.
91. I love making spreadsheets of my ideal schedule.
92. I don't usually eat sandwiches.
93. I hate technology. I wish we used cans and a string instead of Blackberrys. Blackberries? Screw it. I dunno.
94. I have completed a 1/2 mile swim, 15 mile bike ride, 2 mile run triathlon.
95. I am short so my feet rarely touch the ground when I sit. It annoys me.
96. I always have candles in my house.
97. I can't draw stick figures, much less anything bordering on "art"
98. I love organized and labeled pantries.
99. I have trouble sleeping. That's why I'm so friggin' productive.
100. I am so boring!!