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Character Profile

Fill one per character (protagonist, every major antagonist, key secondary characters). The blanks are diagnostic: if goals come easily but traits don't (or vice versa), that's the side of the character you must develop.

Character

  • Name:
  • Role (protagonist / antagonist / ally / love interest / other):
  • Age, appearance (only what the story needs):
  • One-line introduction the reader would remember:

The dramatic line

  • Overall story goal: what she concretely wants by the end:
  • Obstacles: what stands in her way (internal and external):
  • Potential loss: what she stands to lose (stakes):
  • Short-term goals in scenes (examples):

The emotional line

  • Flaw: the coping mechanism (born from a wound):
  • Backstory wound: what happened before the story:
  • Strength: the trait that will carry her through:
  • Hate:
  • Love:
  • Fear: (what she fears most is what she must face to transform)
  • Dream: (dreams become goals the moment she takes an active step)
  • Secret:

Motivation

  • Why does the reader forgive her worst action? (the why, reachable through present-moment thought and dialogue):

Voice

  • Speech habits, vocabulary, rhythm (so a reader can identify her by dialogue alone):
  • Things she would never say or do:

Arc

  • What she is at the start (beliefs, skills, limits):
  • What she must relearn / become by the climax:
  • The transformed action at the climax (what the old self could not do):

Deepening rule

Never repeat, deepen: every reappearance shows wider consequences and a deeper glimpse. Note what gets deepened in each act:

  • Act 1 →
  • Act 2 →
  • Act 3 →