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This document provides guidance on creating character maps to develop fictional characters for stories. It recommends filling out four sections for each main character: 1) the character's name, 2) a physical description using vivid adjectives, 3) the character's personality traits drawn from a list of descriptive words, and 4) how the character interacts with other characters and how others react to them. Completing a character map for each major character helps authors fully imagine their characters and understand them in depth.
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- 1. Characters!
- 2. To convince readers that your character is real, the first step is to convince yourself! You need to create a Character Map for your main characters...this way you will know all about them!
- 3. Character Map On a blank sheet fill in as much information you can Follow these 4 steps for each of your characters
- 4. 1. Character’s Name Think of an exciting name for your character Try to make it original! Not the name of someone in your class...
- 5. 2. What does the character look like? Use fabulous WOW words Describe as much of their appearance as possible including if they are human or not!
- 6. 3. How does the character act? What is their personality like? Some helpful descriptive words: adventurous, afraid, ambitious, arrogant, bad, bold, bossy, brainy, brave, brilliant, calm, careful, careless, charming, cheerful, childish, cowardly, cruel, curious, demanding, depressed, dishonest, eager, easygoing, energetic, evil, faithful, fearless, foolish, friendly, funny, gentle, giving, gloomy, graceful, greedy, guilty, happy, healthy, helpful, honest, hopeful, imaginative, impatient, impolite, innocent, inventive, intelligent, jealous, kind, lazy, lonely, loving, loyal, lucky, mature, mean, mysterious, nervous, nice, noisy, obedient, peaceful, pleasant, polite, poor, proud, quiet, responsible, rough, rowdy, rude, sad, scared, selfish, serious, shy, silly, sly, smart, sneaky, spoiled, strange, sweet, talented, thoughtful, thoughtless, trusting, trustworthy, unfriendly, unhappy, upset, warm, weak, wicked, wise, worried, zany... Include strengths and weaknesses Any other details???
- 7. 4. How does this character act with the other characters How do other characters react to this character? Do they all like this character? Is this character the Villain?
- 8. Complete this process for all your characters
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