Name: Age: Nationality: Occupation / School: Family

Write a report on what you know about different characters at different stages in your novel. You may like to use or adapt the ‘Character Organiser’ below:

Write a report on what you know about different characters at different stages in your novel. You may like to use or adapt the ‘Character Organiser’ below:

Basic Statistics

Name:
Age:
Nationality:
Occupation / School:
Family:

Physical Characteristics

Height:
Eye Colour:
Hair Colour:
Distinguishing features:
How does he/she dress?

Personal Characteristics

Likes:

Dislikes:

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Hobbies and Interests:

Best Quality: (funny, humorous, friendly, caring)

Personality:

Emotional Characteristics

What does the character want out of life?
What motivates this character?
What frightens this character?
What makes this character happy?

How does the character deal with anger?
Is the character judgmental of others?
Is the character generous or stingy?

What would most embarrass this character?
Is the character generally polite or rude?

How the Character is Involved in the Story
Character's role in the novel (main character? hero? heroine? etc.):

Scene where character first appears:

How the character is different at the end of the novel from when the novel began.

In the left hand column, write the character traits of one of the characters in the story. In the right hand column, list how the trait is revealed in the text. Traits can be revealed by events, actions, words, thoughts, attitudes and feelings.

Character: ______

Trait / Revealed By…

Character Traits Word Bank

adventurous, afraid, ambitious, arrogant, bad, bold, bossy, brainy, brave, calm, careful, careless, charming, cheerful, childish, cruel, curious, demanding, depressed, dishonest, easygoing, energetic, evil, fearless, foolish, friendly, gentle, gloomy, greedy, happy, honest, hopeful, imaginative, inventive, intelligent, jealous, kind, lazy, lonely, loving, loyal, mature, mean, mysterious, nervous, noisy, proud, quiet, responsible, rude, sad, selfish, serious, shy, strange, thoughtful, trustworthy, warm, wicked, wise, worried, zany

Create an imaginary diary by one of the characters at various stages in your novel. An example of when you may like to create a diary is when the character in your novel is feeling worried, happy, guilty, or is about to embark on an adventure and so on.

You may like to set out your diary entry as follows: