What you should know about your character

If you're a writer, you know that creating well-rounded characters is essential for any successful story. But where do you start? Check out my article on how to create a detailed character outline spreadsheet to learn how. This article is full of tips on how to organize your character details into categories like identifying details, basic personal info, physical traits, personality traits, and even relationships and inventory. Let me know what character details you think I missed!

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This character questionnaire will help you get to know your characters. Having a well developed character is essential to a well-written story. Get the full character questionnaire with 20 pages of questions to create the most realistic characters possible.

Clothing is an important element of self-expression, and what your character decides to wear can reflect a lot about them. However, you should not spend a lot of time describing their outfit. For one thing, they’re probably going to change their outfit at some point in the story—likely more than once. Secondly, readers just won’t care unless you give them a good reason to. If you want to know how (and when) to describe what a character is wearing, check out this article!