User blog comment:Jenkins S115 SII/Character Contest/@comment-31421-20170309173257

Hi there! I ran something similar back a few years ago to help come up with backstories for my fan-fiction. Worked pretty well. Can I offer you some suggestions?

Your post is pretty open-ended, and requires a fair amount of effort on the part of the entrants. You don't give people much to go on for what the goals of the characters are, nor the backstory of your unit. I looked at the articles linked and they're very minimal. Maybe that's intentional, but it's going to make it difficult for people to fit someone into the group. You're asking people to write characters that are more fleshed out than yours are currently. For example, if your squadron was already full of strong, silent, hard-bitten, grim types, it'd be more challenging to create emotional contrasts. There's no way of telling, though, since your existing pilots barely have any personality described in their articles. You might find it better to allow people to submit a few paragraphs of backstory for your contest and then you flesh out the characters as you see fit.