How to make a good character personality

Two decades ago the psychologists Robert and Joyce Hogan created an inventory of 11 qualities, ranging from excitable to dutiful, that when taken to the extreme, resemble the most common personality disorders. Subsequent profiling of millions of employees, managers, and leaders reveals that most people display at least three of these “dark side” traits, and about 40% score high enough on one or two to put them at risk for career disruption. For example, being excitable may help you display…

Looking for a list of negative character traits? Here's a list of 98 negative character traits and qualities with examples.

175 (Mostly) Positive Character Traits

How Well Do You Know Your Character? Includes a list of 100+ things to find out about your character

How you reveal backstory is just as important as when. Always keep your MC's personality in mind. Ask yourself: how would *they* go about opening up? If they share their backstory with other characters, who and why? Maybe it's a nervous kid they see themselves in or an ex lover they want to make amends with. Either way, it has to be believable. #writers #write #writingtips #writinganovel #bookwriting #writinginspiration #thewriteen #characterdevelopment #creativewriting #characterbackstory

If you're a writer, you know that creating well-rounded characters is essential for any successful story. But where do you start? Check out my article on how to create a detailed character outline spreadsheet to learn how. This article is full of tips on how to organize your character details into categories like identifying details, basic personal info, physical traits, personality traits, and even relationships and inventory. Let me know what character details you think I missed!

I was planning some stuff for a new writing project and I was doin’ the whole thing where you take one of those character trait charts and pick equal amounts of negative and positive characte…