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Character Development 
Links to help you become more acquainted with your starring characters.

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Fiction Writer's Character Chart. Build a full description of your characters. http://www.eclectics.com/articles/character.html

"This site provides classroom resources for teaching and learning the rich tradition of American literature by women." http://www.scribblingwomen.org/home.html

Worksheet: Character Arc/Hero's Journey. Adapted from C. Vogler's The Writer's Journey and J. Campbells' Hero With A Thousand Faces, this worksheet lets you build your characters. http://www.michellejerott.com/arc.html

Writing technique: character development http://sdsd.essortment.com/characterdevelo_rucc.htm

How Well Do You Know Your Character? http://www.webcom.com/wordings/artofwrite/feature.html

Character Development Exercises http://www.pgtc.com/~slmiller/characterexercises.htm

On the Ergonomics of Character Development by William Alan Rieser http://www.oneofus.co.uk/articles/on_the_ergonomics_of_character_development.htm

From Inside to Outside, Outside to Inside: Character Development in Fiction http://www.esva.net/~davidpoyer/cdf1.htm

Character Development 101 http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17744/seminar

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Name Generators

Here's a serious one that takes data from the US Census to make realistic
names. It's great for naming characters! http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm

Now for the fun and useless ones!

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mule/smurfgen.html Get your SMURF name.

http://members.iglou.com/lyons/bitchGen.html Another version of the Prison
Name given by that Witchy Woman

http://www.barrowdowns.com/middleearthname.asp Middle Earth name

http://www.irielion.com/israel/reggaename.html Raggae name

http://pizza.sandwich.net/poke/pokemon.html Pokeman name

http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html Chinese name - will even give
you the Gangi characters!

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor/Names/Name_Generators/ A whole
mess of generators not found above, well ok, a couple do.

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