character development · fiction

Developing Realistic Fictional Characters

Stacey Shubitz

I was assessing my students in Reading in a colleague’s office today.  As a student was finishing up a passage silently, I began looking at her walls.  I found a great chart on character development.  Loved it so much that I turned it into a “worksheet” of my own.  (I also altered it a bit so to include further examples for some of the items listed.)  Here it is:

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Stacey Shubitz is a K-6 literacy consultant and former elementary teacher. She is the author of CRAFT MOVES and other professional books on writing workshop. Her forthcoming book, MAKE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WORK FOR YOUR CHILD WITH DISABILITIES (Guilford Press, 2026), empowers parents to navigate the special education system.

One thought on “Developing Realistic Fictional Characters”

  1. All hail the character work sheet!

    I teach playwriting, but characters are characters – they come alive in the small details. When the writer knows the hopes and fears, the likes and dislikes, the memories, the background of a character, they become three dimensional. Will all these details make it into the final product? They never do, but it becomes easier to write for them specifically and effectively.

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