Character Checklist

Use this exercise as a re-writing tool. After you’ve finished a story, review this list to make certain that your main characters are fleshed out.

• Full name
  
• Birth date, astrology sign
  
• Sense of humor-dry, weird, earthy
  
• Birth order
  
• Parents and parent’s occupations
  
• Major childhood influences, traumas, events, emotional wounds
  
• Talents, Strengths
  
• Flaws, vulnerabilities
  
• Political affiliation
  
• Religious affiliation
  
• Income level
  
• Attitudes, personality type: introvert or extrovert, optimist or pessimist
  
• Primary relationships, marital status and capacity for intimacy
  
• Family background
  
• Occupation
  
• Education
  
• Ambitions, unfulfilled ambitions, obsessions, plans
  
• Taste in clothes
  
• Food Preferences
  
• Health habits
  
• Recreation activities, vacation
  
• Hobbies
  
• Pets
  
• Taste in books, movies and music
  
• Favorite possessions
  
• Hang outs
  
• Mannerisms, pet expressions, gestures
  
• Worst physical trait
  
• Best physical trait
  
• Chief goal in story, secondary goal(s)
  
• Reason he or she is motivated
  
• Enemies
  
• Reactions under stress

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