A quirky trait or two help characters stand out from the crowd. Perhaps an expression he or she always uses might do the trick, n’est pas?

15 Delightful Foreign Terms of Endearment English Should Adopt | Mental Floss

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55564/15-delightful-foreign-terms-endearment-english-should-adopt?bypass=1

I have loved Info Please since I discovered it in high school. Here are links to it and six other online sources for fast facts.

And this isn’t on the list, but it’s been my go-to grammar site for years: the Purdue Online Writing Lab — https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/.

7 Great Online Research Resources for Writers

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/7-great-online-research-resources-for-writers/

We sat, legs crossed, around a campfire on a summer night. Surrounded by woods and miles from home, we listened to a story of teens in a car on a country road. We could hear the gravel crunching under the tires as the couple  sped away from the terrifying vagabond. We screamed when we heard about the hook in the door handle.
Here are a few reminders about how to get your hook into your readers. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

The Common Elements of Good Storytelling

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/03/19/common-elements-good-storytelling/

I was still musing about character traits when I found this and I was taken by the potential conflicts between someone who keeps a bug out bag and someone who practices yoga.

Prompt: Write about the meeting of the yoga character with a bug-out-bag  character.

The Bug Out Bag

http://scottekelley.kinja.com/whats-in-your-bug-out-bag-1540881639/1545787206/+adachis?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

I found this while I was thinking about habits of thought that define character.

Prompt: Write  a sketch  about someone who practices yoga.

How Yoga Changes the Brain – Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-yoga-changes-the-brain/