Five Traits to Help You Create Your Character's Personality

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

This week's Refresher Friday takes another look at using established personality traits to help us build well-rounded characters. 

Creating a character is more than choosing a name and making a list of physical details. Who they are and how they act plays a much stronger role in how a novel unfolds than what they look like. There are dozens of ways to develop the inner depths of a character, and one way is by understanding their personality.

Psychologists over the last sixty years have broken personality down into five traits that influence how a person interacts with the world. These traits can be beneficial to writers, helping us determine how our characters might interact with our story worlds.

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