Personality Traits

Also potentially helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_Briggs_Type_Indicator

And: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice

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These should help with filling out those pesky character forms. Now, to figure out what to do with the question that asks for 'attitudes'.

Such lists are great, but don't forget to make your characters people in their own right. Understand why they are this way and what that means to them, or they can end up being two-dimensional characters with no depth. They can also start to feel like everyone else's characters who used the same list.

Use this as a jumping off point, but don't let it be the only thing that defines your characters.

I myself like to make use of astrological associations with my characters, but as Danthia suggests, they're just guidelines and facets of character rather than the entire character themselves. I've long found personality trait systems intriguing for this reason. But each character must also be individual. (My dad does not act like any sort of Pisces I've ever read about, and my "peaceful" Libra nature must be messed up by my volatile Aries Moon or something.)

Danthia said:

Such lists are great, but don't forget to make your characters people in their own right. Understand why they are this way and what that means to them, or they can end up being two-dimensional characters with no depth. They can also start to feel like everyone else's characters who used the same list.

Use this as a jumping off point, but don't let it be the only thing that defines your characters.

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Well said - I think there is a danger of ending up with "manufactured" characters if a purely scientific approach is taken, I find the most interesting aspects of people I have met over half a century are found in their ability to surprise you when you think you have them sussed. My characters are based on real, ordinary people or a combination of several but even then they come out with some unexpected things sometimes. Sometimes they are based on myself which came as a shock in one novel as I discovered something I didn't know I had in my personality - but when I thought about it, it was true.