BASIC STATISTICS
Name:
What is your character’s name?
Alias:
Does your character go by a different name in your story?
Age:
What is the character’s current age?
Height:
How tall is your character?
Weight:
How much does your character weigh?
Sex:
Is your character a male or a female?
Race:
Is your character Caucasian, African-American, Elvin, Dwarven, etc?
Eye Color:
What is the color of your character’s eyes?
Hair Color:
What is the color of your character’s hair?
Glasses or Contact Lenses:
Does your character wear glasses, contact lenses, or neither?
Nationality:
What is your character’s nationality?
Skin Color:
What is the color of your character’s skin?
Shape of Face:
Is your character’s face round, square, triangle, oval, etc?
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES
Clothing:
How does your character dress? High fashion, sloppy, professional, or casual?
Mannerisms:
What unique gestures and movements set your character apart from other
characters?
Habits:
What habits, good or bad, does your character have? Smoking, drinking,
pencil tapping, cleanliness, etc?
Health:
What is your character’s current health?
Hobbies:
Does your character have any favorite hobbies? Basketball, video games,
sniffing glue, etc?
Favorite Sayings:
Does your character have a favorite saying?
Voice:
What does your character’s voice sound like? Raspy, sexy, soft, etc?
Walking Style:
How does your character walk? Heroic, sneaky, nervous, etc?
Disabilities:
Does your character have any disabilities, physical or mental?
Character’s Greatest Flaw:
What is the one negative thing that stands out above all the rest?
Character’s Best Quality:
What is the biggest thing that makes your character great?
SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS
Hometown:
Where is your character originally from?
Current Residence:
Where does your character currently live?
Occupation:
What does your character do for a living?
Income:
How much money does your character make?
Talents/Skills:
Does your character have any talents or skills that might be useful in the
story?
Family Status:
Does your character have any siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles,
etc, and what is his relationship with them like?
Character as a Child:
What was your character’s status as a child? Child prodigy, school dropout,
petty thief, etc? Why did your character have that status?
Character as an Adult:
What was your character’s status as an adult? King, beggar, genius, ninja
master, etc? Why did your character have that status?
ATTRIBUTES AND ATTITUDES
Educational Background:
What is your character’s highest level of education?
Intelligence Level:
What is your character’s IQ?
Character’s Goals:
What is one short-term goal and one long-term goal that your character
wants to accomplish in his/her lifetime?
Self-esteem:
When your character looks in the mirror, how does he/she see himself/
herself, physically and mentally?
Confidence:
Is your character overconfident, not confident at all, or of average
confidence?
Emotional State:
Is your character ruled by emotion or logic or both?
EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Introvert or Extrovert:
Is your character an introvert or an extrovert?
How does your character deal with
l sadness?
l anger?
l conflict?
l change?
l loss?
What would your character like to change about his or her life?
Is there anything your character would change about his/her life if he/she
could?
Motivation:
What makes your character get out of bed in the morning?
Fear:
Is your character afraid of anything?
Happiness:
What makes your character happy?
Relationships:
How is your character with relationships—social, emotional, physical, etc?
SPIRITUAL CHARACTERISTICS
Does your character believe in God?
Does your character have a strong connection to his/her faith?
Does your character live his/her life according to the laws of his/her faith?
CHARACTER’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE STORY
Archetype:
Is your character the hero, the mentor, the shadow, or one of the other
archetypes?
Environment:
Does the environment affect your character physically or mentally? Does it
affect the way he/she dresses?
Timeline:
Describe five important events that led up to your character’s storyline. What
five events in your character’s back-story led up to the current story that will
be presented to the audience?
