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Character Development Web — Part II

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I’ve been toying around with my character development web, or character chart, a sort of visual character sheet to help me quickly identify the key attributes of a fictional character.

This is a work in progress and I will continue to add, remove, and rearrange items as time goes on. You are free to use this character chart in your own storytelling process. Please leave comments below or on Facebook about what you think can be improved, expanded, etc.

You can find the updated character development web below.

Character Web — Click to enlarge.

Character Development Web — Click to enlarge.

Character Development Web

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I will be going into whether Character is an essential element of story or not in a followup entry on “What Is a Story?” but for now, since I know for sure that all of the stories I will be writing will contain characters, I have started working on a “character web” which allows me to determine the basic attributes of any character I write about.

This character web, or character chart, is a work in progress and I will continue to post updates on it as I make changes. For now, I thought it might be worth while posting it as is, and opening up a discussion with you about what might be added, combined, removed, rearranged, etc. to make it better.

Feel free to use this image as a starting place for your own character chart, but please remember to comment with any improvements you come up with!

 

Character Web — Click to enlarge.

Character Web — Click to enlarge.