Ethnographic Research Questions

Three questions that I feel will bring depth to my research project are:

1-How and where do you come up with your characters?
This question will be add depth and be important to the project because in order to understand my subject's writing process I must understand where that process begins, and discovering the history of the characters seems to be a logical starting place.

2-When beginning a story how much and what sort of research is undertaken?
This question will help me to understand how my subject comes up with her stories, how much is meant to be based in reality for a moral or lesson, and how much is meant to be simple entertainment.

3-What are some of the restrictions that you find, or place, yourself in in order to remain "appropriate" for your audience?
This question will add depth because it will bring into light just what sort of guidelines from the audience, editors, and personal moral code my subject must deal with in order to actually get her work pubished.