Things to Consider

I describe the room in the scenes that need that detail. I need to do a better job because it can be confusing.

1. I don’t establish myself as credible. I want to write it as a faded memory, because a lot of things happened when I was very young and cannot recall the details.

2. I try to be unique, because since I moved around a lot as a child, I used my bed as a central place because I’ve had the same bunk bed since I was a little toddler.

3. The intended audience is anyone who reads this.

4. I assume my readers value comfort, and can relate how uncomfortable my living situation was as a child. I write about how uncomfortable my living situation was, because we were so poor and had to make do, but how I didn’t process a lot of things during these times, because I was so young and didn’t focus on things like this.

Character

Full Name: Julia Thompson

Gender: female

Age and Date of Birth (as your story does not need to have a contemporary

setting): 18

Birth City: Chicago

Parent’s Names: Clarise Harland and Joe Thompson

Siblings: Temprance Woods-Mallett, DeLeon and Jabar

Ethnicity: African American

Pets: none

Education: high school diploma

Favorite Movie: The Notebook

Favorite TV Show: Seinfeld

Favorite Book: none

Favorite Food: barbeque baked chicken

Favorite Day of the Week: Saturday

Favorite Hobby: shopping, spending time with her nieces

Favorite Drink: red Kool-Aid

Favorite Band: B2K

Favorite Song: Bump Bump Bump by B2K

Favorite Halloween Costume (if s/he celebrated Halloween): witch

Religious affiliation: Baptist

Political affiliation: democrat

Love interest(s): the white boy she took to prom

Physical Description

Eye Color: brown

Hair Color and Style: short relaxed brown hair

Height: 5’10

Weight: 140 lbs

Skin Tone: light skin with freckles

Facial Description (does s/he have a unique nose, forehead, eyes, ears, lips,

ect.?):

Clothes (what s/he is wearing or usually wears): bootleg jeans, wide neck shirts

Other Physical Characteristics (booty, busty, muscular, corpulent, scrawny,

disproportioned, ect.): big booty

Defining Moments

The one childhood instance—good or bad—that indelibly affects who this

character is now: My mother kicked her out after she graduated high school. After that she moved to the south side and got a baby daddy who is nothing but drama.

The character’s proudest moment: graduating high school

The character’s most embarrassing moment: getting kicked out

The character’s career goals of future aspirations/ambitions: she had none. That was the problem.

Whom the character would most like to have dinner with (past or present)

and why: her aunt Caroline

Three adjectives the character would use to describe him/herself: irresponsible, lazy, a grown-up kid