United StatesPersona is a character development app that will help you to know each of the characters of your story. Instead of allowing them to evolve as you write, with Persona you can purposefully develop the characters of your story using psychological principles that influence the different motivations of a personality. Persona presents you with 32 archetypes along with a description of their personality traits, virtues, and flaws, and how they interact with other personalities. Used by countless professional and novice writers alike as a critical component to improve the story creation process. With Persona you can: •Explore the relationships and interactions between each of your characters. •Categorize each character into one of 32 archetypes and 64 styles. •Create Smart Groups of characters based on attributes like tags, type, sex, or any word or phrase from your notes. •Construct ad hoc groups of characters without a defined relationship to explore their interactions. •See what happens if the man or woman of the hour suddenly becomes corrupt and turns into a villian or villianess. •Shape the details of a character from the color of their eyes to their hobbies or occupation. Whether your character is a brainiac talking fish or an outcast orphanage owner, Persona helps you explore how each one’s unique psychology and background influences their dealings and dialogue.
Provides intersecting character analysis BUT
This program does what it promises - it allows you to sketch out key character ideas. It is limited, however, in that it is based around on particular model of characters and seems to be very focused on viewpoint/protagonist/antagonist characters, rather than more minor ones. It’s best to think of this as like buying a book on writing which happens to have certain interactive note taking features.
United StatesHelps generate ideas without putting my characters in a box
I really like this software. It's simple to use and it has a great deal of archetypes to use. Of course this shouldn't be the only thing you use to create a character, but what I've found to be helpful is that it generates ideas. When I started my character profiles I got so many ideas of what I wanted to do with them. It can be easy to think that you'll be held in a box by this software. I don't feel that way. The creation of the profiles are limited. You choose an archetype and enter in some general information. It's not more extensive than that. The most useful element of the software is the archetype database. When you create more than one character it will show you how these characters either get along or clash. This is what I believe to be the most valuable aspect of the software. The only thing I wish is for the software to expand so that I can enter in more information about my character, such as entering my own internal and external goals/motivations, where they're from, family life, etc. Hopefully they'll add that because it would be easier to have all my character information in one place. This will allow authors to use their database of information while giving the author more control of their characters. Here's hoping. Otherwise it's pretty good.
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