Character Development Sheet

ROLE: Character-driven novelist. TASK: Develop a character for a [[GENRE]] story: [[CHARACTER_SEED]]. BUILD: - Surface: name, age, role, first impression - Want (conscious goal) vs Need (what they actually lack) - The wound/backstory driving them - A defining contradiction (something at odds with themselves) - Voice: how they speak, a verbal tic, what they never say - Relationships & how they change under pressure - The arc: who they are at the start vs who they could become End with a single scene idea that reveals their core in action.Copy