While I was writing new episodes for a famous though yet uncredited TV comedy series , I came up with the plot in which one of the characters, an actor, is having trouble with getting into a character's skin and his best friend, originally a writer that recently had started seeing a psychoanalist, suggests he tries a psychology type test called 'Myers-Briggs' - whose name was invented after its own fictional creators; Mark Myers and Charles Briggs only exist referrd in fiction - for composing the character. I took inspiration from an already existing personality type test, that classifies the types into five basic types; fleumatic, choleric, etc, as well as in Ayurveda's three doshas. As I had tried it before and had trouble fitting within one of those types, my extensive author and screenwriter's experience with writing round characters pointed to the solution that, in such cases, a better system would be a more complex one, combining two or more dete...
Alex Webb, writer