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This here is a little spread that my best friend and greatest influence gave me a number of years past. This will help all of you aspiring writers out there figure out your character(I still use it!). If there are any questions as to what something means, please ask!

Base Statistics:

Name:

Age:

Birth date(Year not required):

SocioEconomic Level as a child:

SocioEconomic Level as an Adult:

Hometown:

Current residence:

Occupation:

Income:

Talents/Skills:

Salary:

Birth order:

Siblings(Relationship):

Spouse(Relationship):

Children(Relationship):

Grandparents(Relationship):

Grandchildren(Relationship):

Significant Other(Relationship):

Relationship Skills:

Physical Characteristics:

Height:

Weight:

Race:

Eye color:

Hair color:

Glasses/Contacts:

Skin color:

Shape of face:

Distinguishing Features:

Dress:

Mannerisms:

Habits(Smoke/Drink/etc):

Health:

Hobbies:

Favorite Sayings:

Speech Patterns:

Disabilites:

Style(Elegant/Shabby/Combo):

Greatest Flaw:

Best Quality:

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes/Attitudes:

Educational Background:

IQ:

Mental Illnesses?:

Learning Experiences:

Goals(Short Term):

Goals(Long Term):

Self Image:

Assumed Projected Image:

Self Confidence Level:

Ruling Trait(Logic/emotion/combo):

What would most embarass him/her?:

Emotional Traits:

Streangths/Weaknesses:

Introvert/Extrovert:

How does this character deal with anger?:

Sadness?:

Conflict?:

Change?:

Loss?:

What does this character want from life?:

What would this character change about their life?:

Motivation:

Fears:

What makes this character happy?:

Is this character Judgemental?:

Generous or Stingy?:

Polite or Rude?:

Spiritual Beliefs:

Does this character believe in God?:

What is his/her beliefs?:

Is religion or spirituality a part of their life?:

If so, what is its role?:

Story Placement:

Characters Role(Hero? Heroine? Main Character? Romantic Interest? etc):

First Appearence:

Relationship with other characters(List by character name):

How does this character change through the story?

NOTES:


"There's no such thing as can't. You always have a choice."--Ken Gor, Ying hung boon sik II

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Good! I'm glad that someone took a look at this before I logged out for the night, but USING IT?! That's just a bonus!;) Hope it comes in handy to ya!


"There's no such thing as can't. You always have a choice."--Ken Gor, Ying hung boon sik II

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A lot of good questions in the profile.

When I create a complicated character, someone we're all gonna ride the bus with for a while, a great deal of those questions do get answered. I usually start with a cluster of notes and odd ass ideas and then through diolouge or the person thinking shit to themself other traits are revealed. I work em like Eddie makin a key out of a block of wood :P

With some characters, I leave some discriptive details sort of up in the air so the reader can have the final say on what the person looks like.


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That is very similar to something I have used for a long time while writing stories. My husband and I have a mountain of role-playing books and some of them of good ideas of what to think about when you are making a character, so I have just worked with those for the my stories. My husband bought a book a while ago that has a random table for just about everything you have on that list. It is fun sometimes when you can only get the bare basics of a character concept and then you use these tables and the rest likes filling it self out. I have used it a couple of times and the characters that come out are really good.

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I would think that rpg chara outlines would be pretty good, knowing all the verious attacks up front and whatnot ;)


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i think it all depends on the story you're writing....yes, it helps to plan your character, but i don't like setting my character in stone early on.....i do things like name and physical attributes, and a minor history/personality, but i tend to write for characters that change during the story, so setting it all down so early tends to make me feel limited....


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I dig ya Dubie, new characters are still kinda fluid untill ya know what they're really capeable of


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