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