Hobbies for your characters

Common Hobbies/ Activities

One way to best describe your character is through their hobbies. Choose from this list of hobbies for book characters to help your readers feel more connected to them.

My favorite aspect to character creation: their everyday interests. A good interest adds a whole new piece to the character, making her more relatable, memorable, and compelling. The following list…

Description The second addition to my Character Reference Series. I was going to do good characteristics first, but when I was working on a character, which I may or may not post, after I had given my character fears that are unique and tie into their history, I got stumped on common flaws that would make them relatable and bring humor to the story. Tell me what 'ya think and whether this helped or not. Character Flaws : Good Characteristics: Character Hobbies: Update: So recently I…

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Character development is HARD, especially when it comes to making up what they enjoy doing. The easiest route is to just make them like what you like, but the more characters you have, the harder it gets. I've been racking my brain the past few days trying to figure out what one of my MCs does for fun, and she's not telling. So, for a brute force method, I compiled a list of as many hobbies as I could possibly think of. This list is ever-growing as more hobbies turn up. Yes, I know the image…