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You're not just an author, but a daring literary-swashbuckler, slashing your way through a sea of mediocre stories to bring forth the great treasure of your endeavors.
Breaking down the more difficult technic...
If you've ever played Dungeons and Dragons, then you already know that no one can craft a character as well as table top RPGers and LARPers. Sure... sometimes, you get a party full of Marry Sues, but when great role player get together magic happens.
Their secret is a magical piece of paper called the character sheet. It's also a great supplement to your outline.
Now the DnD character sheet looks a little something like this:
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Now, obviously, this is for a game, so the attention to detail in the combat department is a bit overboard. For your book you don't need to know that your main character has a 17 out of 20 strength, you can just say that they're strong. Instead of a 12 charisma, we can just say that Lilith can be sometimes stand-offish when talking to people. If your character fights with a rapier in one hand and a long-sword in the other, then that's definitely worth mentioning.
So with this in mind, your character sheet should look more like this:
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If you want to look at some good RPG books on designing good story characters, I highly suggest that you check out the books from Deadlands or from White WolfPublishing, such a Mage: the Ascension or Vampire: the Masquerade.
But... If you want something a little more formal, here is my character sheet for Liz from my story Love and Hamburgers (which you can read on wattpad).
