Description
Never forget your hero’s eye color halfway through the book again!
The Complete Character Development Cheat Sheet for Writers is designed to help you create believable, consistent, fully developed characters—and keep all those little details in one convenient place.
Whether you’re plotting a brand-new story, developing the cast of an entire series, or trying to remember whether your hero’s scar was over his left eyebrow or his right, this comprehensive cheat sheet gives you a place to record the details that bring a character to life.
Use it to develop and track:
- Physical appearance and distinguishing features
- Age, birthday, family, and background
- Education, occupation, and finances
- Personality, strengths, flaws, and quirks
- Habits, hobbies, likes, dislikes, and favorites
- Clothing, personal style, home, and vehicle
- Speech patterns, expressions, gestures, and mannerisms
- Relationships, friendships, and romantic history
- Fears, secrets, wounds, and vulnerabilities
- Goals, motivations, and internal and external conflicts
- Backstory and defining life experiences
- Character arc and emotional growth
- Continuity details you’ll need throughout your story or series
Created by writers, for writers, this printable PDF is useful for novelists, short-story writers, romance authors, mystery writers, fantasy authors, and anyone who wants characters who feel like real people instead of names on a page.
Print a fresh copy for every character, keep them together in your story or series binder, and stop hunting through 200 manuscript pages trying to remember what color somebody’s eyes are.
Because your characters may be fictional—but their details still need to be consistent.