Character Development tools

animatronicboyfriend:

Character Personality Generator

Character Flaw Generator

Character Flaw Generator 2

Character Development Question Generator

Random “Thing” Generator: Great for themes, simple character ideas, details, etc.

Character Secret Generator

Character Motivation / Motivator Generator: Figure out motivating factors for your character. What drives them?

Character Interest Generator

Character Detail Generators: A huge list of other generators to help you hammer out the details of your character

Creating Characters – A reference List

writingandresources:

Another helpful list of references, this time for creating original characters for your own stories, RPGs, or even fanfictions! Brought to you by writingandresources.

NAME GENERATORS

Seventh Sanctum’s Noun Generators

Behind the Name’s generator, with advanced options (you can choose from different languages and more!)

Fake Name Generator gives you a first name, initial and last name as well as an address.

Fantasy Name Generator, with an advanced option if you wanna learn how to use it.

Generates name, gender, appearance ans age.

CHOOSING NAMES

Writer’s Digest – 7 rules for picking character names.

Tips for writers on Babynames.com

How to the right names for your characters, from Writer’s Relief.

A forum about overused names.

Another Forum.

And Another.

10 tips for naming characters

PERSONALITY AND BACKSTORY

Character personality generator

A generator for skills, abilities and traits.

A list of 638 primary personality traits.

Examples of personality traits and how to put them together.

A thread on overused character backstories.

TV Tropes – Overused copycat character list (good for making sure your character isn’t an unintentional overused cliche.)

25 overused traits, backstories and character archetypes.

ALREADY HAVE AN OC?

To make sure you haven’t created a monster, consider reading The Semi-Grand List of Overused Romance Cliches

To make extra extra sure your character isn’t awful, put them through the Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test.

lepetitdragon:

teadrunkartist:

anatomicalart:

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Feeling down about your writing?

maxkirin:

Here’s what you need to do:

Put on your #1 guilty-pleasure pop song

Imagine your OCs shooting a music video to said song

Try not to smile too much

I hope this helps!

Keep writing~ ♥︎

imagine-your-oc:

Imagine your OC #1 blowing an airhorn in OC #2’s ear

Stereotype your OC

frustratedpen06:

lyslian:

xhikaruchanx:

thisgrrlwithhands:

Answer all these questions and you should have a fully-developed character for your audience to connect with.
A strong character can carry a weak plot; but a strong plot can’t carry weak characters

oh

my

god

yes

I didn’t know I needed this.

*Rubbing this all over my face*

Source: thisgrrlwithhands

imagine-your-oc:

Imagine your OC hanging out with all their friends at the local water park and just ridin the lazy river and maybe some of the more daring ones are on some of the rides and by the end of the day at least someone is badly sunburned.

imagineyour-oc:

Imagine your OC becoming an animal if they’re human/humanoid .
If they’re an animal, becoming human.

Platonic relationships are great and all

miss-nerdgasmz:

vaysh:

goodmorningbalthazar:

but I prefer Socratic relationships

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Let’s do this.

At 2AM when my friend’s trying to sleep:
“Do you think pigeons have feelings?”