When coming up with profiles for your Characters

Throughout my life as a writer, I always fell in love with the characters like many of you out there. When it came to stuff like video games, anime, etc-- I wanted to know more about the character in the most in depth way possible just to understand them personally so I can connect at a deeper level. (And also find myself a few other fangirls that will agree with me on some of the topics). So being a nerd and a person who loves her precious laptop (Jiraya), I went to sites like Wikipedia, fan based pages on were create for people like me, and even when to bookstores just to figure out more about the stuff I became obsess with at the time.

So like them, I wanted to try out a profile for my characters. Wanna know the issues for that? Well I'll give you a couple of reasons.

1.) You have to get to know your characters.
2.) There are so, so, so many examples of profile formats everywhere (books, online)
3.) Things will rapidly change when you keep writing.

Most of my attempts have been successful, but sometimes I have a difficult time coming up with back stories and how to keep the profile 'original' with much depth my characters needs so I can get a better idea of my story. However, you know how sometimes writers discuss how they can't get along with most of their characters in their head or you have random bursts of imaginations for other stories or you loose confidence in your current project? Honestly, I deal with that every single day, and I'm pretty sure you guys do as well.

So my advice to all of us here, just keep working on it. Make your characters so realistic for the readers, and their profiles similar criminal background ones with so much information about their personal, social, mental, physical (etc) status and personal family history. And also do find a few examples to assist you when starting your character profiles. It will be like creating your own child or some form of imaginary friend that can help you write your stories. You can show people the profiles of your characters, but just reveal the short versions and pictures that inspired the character only. It's one of the only ways you can hide some of great detail about your stories. If you have people questioning you about what people you're talking about and calling you weird, shrug it off or say 'yes I'm crazy, but its the new norm.'.

Enjoy yourselves and have fun creating the characters that are ready to take over the fictional world!

Some links for you guys:

• http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jun98/lazy2.htm
• http://www.epiguide.com/ep101/writing/charchart.html
• http://www.creative-writing-now.com/writing-character-profiles.html
• http://nanowrimo.org/forums/character-cafe/threads/125155