<aside> <img src="/icons/chemistry_purple.svg" alt="/icons/chemistry_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Treya is a panster looking for ways to tell longer stories that work (not a hot word mess) in less time to a growing audience.

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Treya’s portrait made with Artbreeder.

<aside> <img src="/icons/light-bulb_purple.svg" alt="/icons/light-bulb_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Where Treya’s the Troubled name comes from:

I like character names with deeper meanings and links to the project:

1. TRE = The Reader Experience.
2. Treya = A young woman walking on three paths
3. I often find myself headed in multiple directions, The Reader Experience is a convergence of three. Design, fiction and Notion.
4. I use alliteration to make remembering their name and key problem or emotion, easier. </aside>

Tasks

• [ ] Refocus detail around being a writer.
• [ ] One-sentence summary
• [ ] How can I make this simpler

Character Base

• Data (comment/polls etc) supports purple text.

<aside> <img src="/icons/news_purple.svg" alt="/icons/news_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Backstory

Treya had a comfortable but difficult childhood. She carries deep wounds around self-esteem and self-worth stemming from an absent father and a tumultuous parental divorce at a very young age.

Dishonest and combative as co-parents has created trust issues and inspired radical honesty.

Early exposure to Alzheimer’s in a grandparent has made her a very tolerant person, accepting of neurodiversity and slow to judge. But terrified of being forgotten and not being intellectually understood.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/heartbroken_purple.svg" alt="/icons/heartbroken_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Character Flaw: Hyper-self-critical / Own worst enemy

Treya has internalised the punitive, critical voice of her father. It’s an unbalanced caricature, always ready to reduce her results with biting comments.

Harshly judging her own achievements, this makes her self-destructively impatient, wasting time trying to rush and shortcut instead of having faith in slow consistent progress.

Her own introspection and self-awareness of this pattern only fuels more guilt and frustration.

“Make your character flawed in a serious, big, scary, potentially life-wrecking way.” – Libbie Hawker

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Character Details

Defines capacity in a given situation.

<aside> <img src="/icons/castle_purple.svg" alt="/icons/castle_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Strengths: what can they draw on?

• Multi-passionate Creative
• A panster with a million ideas a minute </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/fragile_purple.svg" alt="/icons/fragile_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Weaknesses: what trips them up?

• Bad with people
• Prone to procrastination and passivity. </aside>

Strong emotions guide behavior.

<aside> <img src="/icons/heart_purple.svg" alt="/icons/heart_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Loves: will spend to enjoy these

• Social Communities
• Enjoys learning new things
• Variety, choices and/or options </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/emoji-angry_purple.svg" alt="/icons/emoji-angry_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Hates: will spend to avoid these

• Dishonesty
• Loss of self </aside>

Character arc

<aside> <img src="/icons/trophy_purple.svg" alt="/icons/trophy_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Wants (External Goal)

1. She wants to share her stories with the world, she’d ideally like to be paid to do that, but that’s more so she can dedicate more time to doing what she loves. If money wasn’t an issue she’d write. And paint and garden and travel. But mostly write.
2. She wants to write stories for worlds that invite people in and capture a part of their heart forever. Letting them travel the real world forever with one foot, or a toe at least, in her worlds. Taking from them something useful and universal to battle onward.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/sword_purple.svg" alt="/icons/sword_purple.svg" width="40px" /> But struggles against Unrealistic Expectations

Time and prioritisation, being a person who likes doing a lot of things and a daydreamer, she’s not good at knowing her limitations.

She’s a perfectionist, who is afraid of failure and rejection. Although she won’t admit it she does seek external validation.

Harnessing her creativity in a purposeful direction is one of her biggest frustrations.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/mountains_purple.svg" alt="/icons/mountains_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Because actually Needs (Internal Goal)

1. Needs to moderate expectations about what is possible within her time.
2. Feel that she's good enough or doing enough even when moving at a slower pace. </aside>

Brainstorming Possible Solutions

What could help this person? Think broadly without self-criticism these are just ideas and ways to help this person. They can help in future develop more specific or targeted solutions.

<aside> <img src="/icons/child_purple.svg" alt="/icons/child_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Behavioural (Habits)

• A clear definition of success with realistic goals and timelines.
• A focus on well-being
  • A supportive like-minded community </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/flood_purple.svg" alt="/icons/flood_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Environmental (Surroundings)

• What can she change in her work?
• A focus on well-being </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/gear_purple.svg" alt="/icons/gear_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Systemic (Tools)

• A simple system work system, that prevents overwhelm but increases productivity and focus.

  I’ve been looking for an organizer

• Clear ways to us time-saving tools (like AI art or writing or narration) to tell richer stories with and get ahead of the next wave.

  I've already designed … using AI

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