Character Background 16 Cards
So here is a spread that gives you the basic outline for a backstory. One of the areas has to do with a professional life. If you’re dealing with a young character who might not have experienced a professional life, this can be interchanged with a social life, education, etc. Likewise, if you’re dealing with an older character and you want to include a social and/or education experience, all you have to do is add rows to the spread.
- Card 1 - Family Life
- Card 2 - Difficulties in family life
- Card 3 - Success in overcoming the difficulties in family life
- Card 4 - How does family life affect their plot
- Card 5 - Romantic Life
- Card 6 - Difficulties in romantic life
- Card 7 - Success in overcoming the difficulties in romantic life
- Card 8 - How does romantic life affect their plot
- Card 9 - Social Life
- Card 10 - Difficulties in social life
- Card 11 - Success in overcoming the difficulties in social life
- Card 12 - How does social life affect their plot
- Card 13 - Ideology that carries on into the story
- Card 14 - Challenge/difficulty to the ideology
- Card 15 - How they react to the ideology being challenged
- Card 16 - How the ideology and events around it affect the plot
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Cards count: 7
Cards:
1) Concept: the character's basic position in their story.;
2) Impulse: the character's wants/needs/etc.;
3) Ideal: the character's beliefs/goals/etc.;
4) The Past: how their saga began.;
5) The Interim: what happened to bring them from the past to the present.;
6) The Present: what is currently happening.;
7) The Future: what is likely to happen in the future..
Cards count: 8
Cards:
1) Appearance (Height, hair, eye colour, skin colour, general impression);
2) Age (In years or a description of apparent age);
3) Visual Signature (Clothes, posture, walk, or distinctive mannerism);
4) Backstory (Trauma, occupation, spirituality, pet peeve);
5) Primary Strength (What could story be solved by?);
6) Critical Flaw (What could progress be impeded by?);
7) Motivator (What does character lack, but long for?;
8) Problem-Solving (How does character react to conflict?).
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