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Character Development

This document contains a series of questions to help develop the background and personality of a character. There are 50 questions total, divided into sections about facts, history, and personality. The fact questions ask for biographical details like name, physical appearance, family, education and work history. The history questions explore experiences, relationships and impactful life events. The personality questions delve into preferences, beliefs, behaviors and self-perception.

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Character Development

This document contains a series of questions to help develop the background and personality of a character. There are 50 questions total, divided into sections about facts, history, and personality. The fact questions ask for biographical details like name, physical appearance, family, education and work history. The history questions explore experiences, relationships and impactful life events. The personality questions delve into preferences, beliefs, behaviors and self-perception.

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FACTS QUESTIONS:

1. What is your full name?

2. How did your parents decide on your name?

3. How tall are you?

4. What color is your hair?

5. What color are your eyes?

6. How much do you weigh?

7. What is your birthday (month, date, and year)? (Note: Its important to pinpoint this
date so you can figure out details about the characters past and how old he or she would
have been during certain events. It might be a good idea to create a character timeline.)

8. What is your fathers name?

9. What is your mothers name?

10. What are your grandparents names?

11. Do you have any siblings? What are their names, birthdates, and birth order?

12. Where were you born?

13. Where were your parents born?

14. Where were your grandparents born?

15. Where do you live now?

16. Do you have any medical problems, diseases, injuries?

17. Do you have any distinguishing marks on your body (a mole, a birthmark, a
missing finger, a tattoo, etc.)?

18. What religion are you, and why?

19. What is your annual income?

20. How much money do you have saved?


21. What kind of house/apartment do you live in?

22. What kind of car do you own?

23. Do you have any pets?

24. When will you be able to retire?

25. Are you married? If so, what is your spouses name?


HISTORY QUESTIONS:
1. Where did you go to school?

2. How many times have you moved in your life?

3. When did you move to where you live now?

4. Did you attend college, trade school, etc. and where?

5. What did you study in school?

6. When you were a child, what did you dream of being when you grew up?

7. What jobs have you held and what years? (What does your resume look like?)

8. What is the first historical event you remember? (The Great Depression, Kennedys
assassination, the moon landing, September 11th)?

9. How did you feel/react to (Princess Dianas death, Martin Luther King Jr.s
assassination, the Columbine shooting, Michael Jacksons death, the O.J. Simpson Trial,
Betty Whites 90th birthday, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, The Super Bowl in 1989, 2004,
2012, etc.)?

10. Who did you vote for in the (1960, 1972, 1980, 1992, 2008) presidential election?

11. What places have you visited on vacation?

12. Have you visited any interesting places for work?

13. Who was your best friend as a child?

14. Who was your best friend in high school?

15. Who was your best friend in college?

16. Who is your best friend now?

17. Who are all of the people whom you have dated?

18. Why did your relationship with each person you dated not work out?

19. What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?


20. What is the best thing that ever happened to you?

21. Who was your fourth grade teacher and what influence did he/she have on you?

22. Who did you take to the prom in high school?

23. What groups, organizations did you belong to in high school, or what sports did
you play?

24. How did you meet your current significant other?

25. Who important to you has died in your life and how did you cope with their deaths?
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS:
1. What is your favorite color?

2. What is your favorite place to vacation and why?

3. What is your favorite book?

4. Who is your favorite actor?

5. Who is an actor you cant stand?

6. What is your favorite movie?

7. Which movies do you absolutely hate?

8. What is your favorite TV show?

9. What is your favorite food(s)?

10. What is your favorite restaurant?

11. What most annoys you about (your mom, dad, brother, sister, wife, son, daughter,
best friend, boss, co-worker)?

12. How often do you exercise? What are your exercise goals?

13. Which of your buttons does your mother (sister, brother, son, wife, girlfriend, etc.)
like to push that sets you off?

14. Do you believe its okay to tell a lie and under what circumstances?

15. Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

16. What things might you be asked to do that you hate doing but do anyway (attend
birthday parties, weddings, do chores for your elderly aunt, etc.)?

17. Have you ever been arrested and why?

18. Who would you lay down your life for?

19. Who would you really like to tell off?

20. What are your spending habits?


21. Do you enjoy hot weather, or do you prefer colder temperatures?

22. What kind of relationship do you have with God?

23. If you could describe yourself in one sentence, what would you say?

24. If your (best friend, wife, daughter, boss, neighbor etc.) were to describe you in one
sentence, what do you think he/she would say?

25. What do you think is the meaning of life?

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