Ceroja

1. Make your character good at something

2. Make your character care about someone other than himself

3. Make good characters do bad things and bad characters do good things

4. Give your character a unique way of speaking

5. Give your character a life that bleeds beyond the page

6. Give your character a passion

7. Give your character an obsession

8. Know your character's psychic wound

9. Give your character an attitude. Understand how your character relates to other people.

10. Know what your character wants the most

11. Know what your character fears the most

12. Think about how the character's appearance impacts his/her life and personality

13. Give you character some blind spots