# Character Profile: [Name]

Free editable template from https://www.geekart.ai/en/blog/character-profile-template
Use in any text editor or copy into your own notebook. Duplicate for another character.
Fill the fields that help your next scene; leave other decisions open.

Story / draft version:
Profile current through chapter or scene:
Last updated:

Status key:
- CONFIRMED: established in the draft or settled author notes; give the source.
- PLANNED: intended for a future scene; still changeable.
- OPEN: undecided. Leave possibilities separate from facts.

A character's statement can be confirmed while its truth is still open.

## 1. Role and essential facts

- Name and story role:
- Viewpoint character? If not, whose viewpoint reveals this person?
- Age / life stage, if relevant:
- Work, responsibilities, or skills that affect scenes:
- Relationships needed to understand this part of the story:
- Appearance, possessions, or physical limits to track:
- Source and status for these facts:

## 2. Want and pressure

- Goal across this part of the story:
- Immediate goal in the next scene:
- Who or what resists it:
- What happens if they fail or refuse to act:
- What they can offer, bargain with, or withhold:
- What a small success would look like on the page:
- Source / status:

## 3. Contradiction and choice

- A value or belief they express:
- An action that complicates it:
- Something they protect despite themselves:
- A boundary they will not cross at this checkpoint:
- What could put that boundary under pressure? Mark future possibilities PLANNED or OPEN.
- A choice already made, with scene reference:

## 4. Relationships

Repeat this block for each relationship that changes a scene.

- Other person:
- What this character wants from them:
- What this character gives or withholds:
- What the other person can refuse:
- Shared history established in the draft:
- What each person misunderstands or does not know:
- Current relationship state and checkpoint:

## 5. Voice and attention

- What they notice first:
- How they ask for something:
- How they refuse, evade, or delay:
- Words, rhythms, or assumptions that distinguish them:
- One line from the draft and its scene reference:
- What this line is trying to make the listener do:
- A useful physical behavior and when it changes the scene:
- Habits to avoid repeating in every exchange:

## 6. Knowledge at this checkpoint

- Knows, with scene or note reference:
- Believes or suspects, with reason:
- Says to another person, whether true or not:
- Does not know yet:
- Information the reader has but this person lacks:
- Author decisions still OPEN:
- Viewpoint limits: whose private thoughts may the narration reveal?

Keep these categories separate when revising. Check an earlier checkpoint before
giving a character information learned later in the draft.

## 7. Next scene and updates

- Request:
- Resistance:
- Choice:
- Consequence that changes what can happen next:
- Facts or voice choices to preserve:
- Question this scene may leave unanswered:

After drafting:
- New choice, belief, or knowledge established:
- Relationship or boundary changed:
- Source passage:
- Profile entries to update:
- Earlier or later scenes to recheck:
- Superseded plan to remove from current notes:

For an arc, keep a short sequence of actual choices and their costs. Mark projected
changes PLANNED until the draft establishes them. You do not need a completed arc
to write the next scene.