Character Chart

One difficulty fiction writers often encounter in trying to build their first novel is how to develop a character and then keep track of the details about that character. I've done it with notebooks (a page about each character) and narratives and more recently by filling out my own forms or tables of characteristics. But I find electronically searching a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet too confusing, so I print it out and pin the pages to a bulletin board that stands beside my desk.

Author Rebecca Sinclair has designed Character Chart you can capture (save as text) and use. It is divided into major aspects or components such as Attitude, Occupation, Family and more with prompting questions to answer or at least think about. A sample of the Miscellaneous questions:

Person character secretly admires:
Why?
Person character was most influenced by:
Why?
Most important person in character's life before story starts:
Why?
How does character spend the week before the story starts?