Writing Character Profiles - Additional Questions

1. If your character has a job, is he or she good at it? Does he or she like it?
2. What are your character's bad habits?
3. If you asked about his or her greatest dream, what would your character tell you?
4. What's a secret dream that he or she wouldn't tell you about?
5. What kind of person does your character wish he or she could be? What is stopping him or her?
6. What is your character afraid of? What keeps him or her up at night?
7. What does your character think is his or her worst quality?
8. What do other people think your character's worst quality is?
9. What is a talent your character thinks he or she has but is very wrong about?
10. What did his or her childhood home look like?
11. Who was his or her first love?
12. What's the most terrible thing that ever happened to him/her?
13. What was his/her dream growing up? Did he/she achieve this dream? If so, in what ways was it not what the character expected? If your character never achieved the dream, why not?
14. In what situation would your character become violent?
15. In what situation would your character act heroic?