[DarkElfChilde]

Hey everyone.

Okay, so, I thought it would be nice if I share something that helps me to create and remember everything about my original characters for stories I write. This can be useful for fan fics and novels [even for RP characters if you fancy role-playing games], and if you decide to take a break from writing something, you won't have to worry about forgetting about things, or even little things such as the character's eye or hair colour for an example.

If anyone needs an example, I will post one of my character's profile up for you to see, but it really isn't that hard. Also, when you make these, you can always go back to change the profile...adding, deleting...there is a lot of work involved making them if you've never done something like this, but it definately is worth it in the end.

The next post will have an empty character profile sheet, since I wanted it seperate from this post. It'll be easier for you to go ahead and copy and paste it if you want to.

[DarkElfChilde]

[Depending on your character, you can always add other info on their profile that you think should be on there. I do. ]






Name:

Nickname:

Age:

Place of Birth:

Residence:

Height:

Weight:

Hair Color:

Hair Length:

Eye Color:

Handedness:

Beliefs:

Personality:

Scars/Tattoos/Markings:

General Appearance:

Marital Status/Family:

Personal History:

Current Job:

Skills/Hobbies:

[EdgeOfDark]

That's nice! I use a pretty big one for my characters, something held over from my RPG days. Its always helpful to have detailed character records and a good story outline to maintain continuity!

Edge ^_^

[Robbie]

Some basics not in there:

Gender

Species. e.g. Canine, for those 'other' characters

Language. e.g. "Woof"

[Viv]

My character questionnaire is a hodgepodge of questions like these plus some motivation-inspired ones like "If your house were burning down, what is the one thing you'd want to save?" and "What do you spend the most time tending these days?"

I find, though, that I used to spend a lot of time on these character profiles but little of the information proved relevant to the actual story. So I started keeping a collection of tics, habits, and speech tags for characters instead, and that has proved *very* helpful.

[Sulriel]

The other thing that's good is to write snips of them in various situations, not necessarily part of the story, but just a paragraph or so to show their responses in various situations.

[dolarabee]

This is great! Thanks for starting this thread, DEC.

I too have played too many RPGs for not keeping bios and notes on all my characters.

do.

[DarkElfChilde]

[DarkElfChilde]

[dolarabee]