Character Profiles

I finally came across an assignment that I could use to help me write my story. The Day 3 assignment is to write character profiles for some of the characters in the memories described on Day 2 and Day 1. Since I had no intention of writing a memoir or using the people from my own life, I decided to use the assignment to write character profiles about the characters in the book I'm trying to write. It took me a couple hours to finish the main character's and I'm in the middle of the "male lead"'s profile. I figure I'll finish it tonight when my aunt returns from her writing class and I'll go to Starbucks.

Anyway, the character profiles have been really helpful! They really make me think about what motivates the characters and how a character would know this particular information and so on. For instance, I needed the lead character to know a vital piece of information to the story, but I couldn't think of a reason as to why the character would know it. One of the questions I had to answer was about the character's most traumatic event. Who could forget the details of one's most traumatic event? I was really able to better describe the type of person she was and have a viable reason as to how my character would know this random piece of information.