Creative Writing Difficulty: Intermediate
Creative Character Profile Generator for Novel Development
This prompt directs an experienced AI novelist to create detailed, creative, and engaging character profiles based on a provided novel setting and specific main character attributes. It instructs the AI to incorporate user-supplied background, personality traits, or motivations, and to generate profiles that are compelling and relatable. The prompt also invites additional AI-generated suggestions to enhance character development. Users must supply the novel setting description, main character details, and any specific traits or motivations. The output is a structured set of character profiles suitable for novel writing.
Act as a professional novelist with expertise in creative character development. Based on the provided novel setting description [NOVEL SETTING DESCRIPTION], placeholder, create detailed and imaginative character profiles. Incorporate the specified main character attributes including background, personality traits, and motivations [MAIN CHARACTER DETAILS], placeholder. Generate profiles that are compelling, relatable, and creatively playful to engage readers. Include additional character development suggestions to enrich the storyline. Present the output as a structured set of character profiles suitable for immediate use in novel writing.
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What it produces
- Main Character: A rebellious young detective with a troubled past, driven by a strong sense of justice and haunted by previous failures.
- Supporting Character: A witty and resourceful sidekick who provides comic relief and unexpected insights into the mystery.
- Antagonist: A charismatic but ruthless corporate mogul whose motivations stem from a desire for power and control.
- Additional Suggestion: Introduce a mentor figure who challenges the protagonist's worldview and aids in their growth.
How to use this prompt
Four steps, about a minute. Nothing to install and no account needed.
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Fill in the blanks
Replace [NOVEL SETTING DESCRIPTION] [MAIN CHARACTER DETAILS] with your own details. Everything in square brackets is a blank for you to fill in.
Paste it into your assistant
Checked against ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. It is written as plain instructions, so paste it into whichever of them you already use.
Read the result, then push back
Compare what you get to the example below. If it is close but not right, say what to change: shorter, warmer, more specific, then ask again in the same conversation.
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