How to Develop a
Character Chart List?
This page discusses how to make your characters
more real. To do this, it is highly recommended that you develop a character
chart on each major character at a minimum or all characters at a maximum. I
just chart the major characters and let my database of novel terms/characters
take care of the minor characters. Although this is just one way to make
characters more real, I suggest you figure out some way to track your
characters. Readers will spot inconsistencies if you aren't careful.
This list is not in any logical order, and does not contain all
the detail you may want to track on your characters. The first item would be to
list the full name including the full middle name. Is the character known by
some title like Doctor. Or is the character a junior or III?
Age
Height
Weight
Eye color
Hair color
Birth Date
Birth Place
Scars/handicaps
Education
Work
Best friend(s)
Marital status
Enemies
Parents
Present problem
Character traits
Humor
Ambitions
Philosophy
Favorite colors
Pastimes
Dress
Hobbies
Readers likes/dislikes
Character remembered for
You might use all these items, or only some, or add more. It is all up to your
needs in writing your work. If you have something that you think should be
added, deleted, or modified here, please email me.
28‘Take the fig tree as a parable: as soon as
its twigs grow supple and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.29So
with you when you see these things happening: know that he is near, right at the
gates.30In truth I tell you, before this generation has passed away all these
things will have taken place.31Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will
not pass away.32‘But as for that day or hour, nobody knows it, neither the
angels in heaven, nor the Son; no one but the Father.
The New Jerusalem Bible: Reader’s Edition, (New York: Doubleday.) 1990.
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13 Are any among you suffering? They should
keep on praying about it. And those who have reason to be thankful should
continually sing praises to the Lord.
14 Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and
have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15
And their prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make
them well. And anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be
healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful
results. 17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that
no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years! 18 Then he
prayed for rain, and down it poured. The grass turned green, and the crops began
to grow again.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers,
Inc.) 1996.
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