Character ideas prompts

Seven toxic seniors were leeching off of their classmates' hard work during group projects to maintain their grades, and the other kids were too nervous and scared to do something about it. So their teacher took action.

A woman (23) asked if she was wrong to be upset when her husband-to-be (35) decided to cancel their honeymoon to Paris so he could fund a monster truck with “the boys.”

Suddenly everything was a competition (that her kids always won).

Do you mean: Missy?? No but seriously, I LOVE goofy villains like this. They can still be evil and bad, they don’t have to muddle the lines between good and evil, but giving them a goofiness like this really helps lighten the mood of the story and keep things from becoming so insanely DARK all the time. (And often they create fangirls/fanboys that much quicker. See: Me with the Master/Missy. 😆)

How to write a good character, dichotomous key infographic.

Character Building Checklist - Tips and resources to help you develop well-rounded, compelling characters in your writing.

These are what I would consider to be the most basic, bare-bones questions of character creation. What would completely break your character? What was the best thing in your character's life? What was...