What the Character Generator Does

A quick character sketch filled with the kinds of little details that makes stories engaging: character gender, cardinal traits, weaknesses, and most prized possession. Just like us, characters' behaviors and preferences should be rooted in both genetics and past experience.

How to use it

You can take a number of approaches, but one of the best is to choose one of the character's qualities and start writing about why or how this trait came to be. As you work, challenge yourself to incorporate the other details.

You can also start with the secondary conflict created by the "other" character and write about how your protagonist got involved (or gets involved, or tries to escape being involved) with that situation.

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