For child characters

• Name:
• Age:
• Birthday:
• General physical description:
• Hometown:
• Type of home/ neighborhood:
• Father’s name, background, and occupation:
• Mother’s name, background, and occupation:
• Brothers and sisters:
• Position in family:
• Other close relatives:
• Family relationships:
• Special friends:
• Enemies:
• Influential person or event:
• Grade in school:
• Attitude toward school:
• Grades:
• Favorite pastimes:
• Hobbies (music/art/reading material):
• Favorite sports:
• Favorite foods:
• Dress style:
• Religion:
• Attitude toward religion:
• Relationship with boys:
• Relationship with girls:
• Leader or follower:
• Strongest positive personality trait:
• Strongest negative personality trait:
• Sense of humor:
• Temper:
• Consideration for others:
• How other people see him/her:
• Opinion of him/herself:
• Other traits, especially those to be brought out in story:
• Ambitions:
• Philosophy of life:
• Most important thing to know about character:
• Will readers like or dislike this character, and why?
• Additional Questions
• If your character has a job, is he or she good at it? Does he or she like it?
• What are your character's bad habits?
• If you asked about his or her greatest dream, what would your character tell you?
• What's a secret dream that he or she wouldn't tell you about?
• What kind of person does your character wish he or she could be? What is stopping him or her?
• What is your character afraid of? What keeps him or her up at night?
• What does your character think is his or her worst quality?
• What do other people think your character's worst quality is?
• What is a talent your character thinks he or she has but is very wrong about?
• What did his or her childhood home look like?
• Who was his or her first love?
• What's the most terrible thing that ever happened to him/her?
• What was his/her dream growing up? Did he/she achieve this dream? If so, in what ways was it not what the character expected? If your character never achieved the dream, why not?
• In what situation would your character become violent?
• In what situation would your character act heroic?