Do you make character sheet?

Yeah.. with he average-looking characters that would be easier to manage. I can't imagine writing fantasy stories without the character sheets. I wonder did JRR Tolkien make such sheets too? Since "The Lord of The Rings" has so many strong characters with many details such elves, dwarfs, hobbits, humans from many races, orcs, goblins, and even the great Sauron. If he missed a little part of it that would be a mess!! And yeah, do you write the character's personalities too, like bad tempered, patient, kind, naughty, j3rks, b1tchy, or something like that, which could relate on how they react to the other characters on the story?

With his vivid imagination, maybe he sketched pictures of all of his characters? Can you imagine all of the paper he must've gone through if he did that? It took him years to write it all though, so methinks he had plenty of time to fix any mistakes he might've made before the rest of the world ever saw it. I wonder what creatures and characters he thought of first and how it related to the order the story went in. Yeah, personality tends to be the last part I write about them -- though who they like, dislike, and how they relate to other characters is second to last, since it helps me structure what they're like. I gotta get a feel for them first, since creating depths to imagined beings is hard to do off-the-wall.

LOL.. yeah yeah... and you know what? since you're writing a supernatural-drama, I think you might sketch your characters too... I mean, the supernatural powers you might have detailed about. It would be fun to imagine many super powers given to the human lol

That's true. By the way how do you make a novel with 3 other persons? I mean molti author is something that I always dream of making, but I never able to do that since I don't have friends who have the same interests with me in writing. Would it be the same, or different with playing forum RPG?

That's great.. thank you for the link. By the way, About the e-novel itself, it means people can read, and copy paste it, right? How do you deal with the copyright? Or you just write it for fun, so you don't really care about that? If you could give me some information about that :)

Four of us wrote a novel by giving one writer each main character for the novel. The e-novel written in Malay language entitle MAHLIGAI CINTA by Sri Diah. You can search it in Internet or purchase it via ebay. This novel is about the family conflict. One writer be a husband. Another writer act as wife. Another one act as daughter. The fourth writer act and wrote as son. Every writer wrote on some issues based on their (father, mother, son, daughter) perceptions. We never meets to discuss about the novel. We just chit-chat online only. We publish the e-novel online and there're many reader and followers to it. Sometime our readers give suggestions to the plot and storyline and charecters etc. After three-quarter the e-novel about to complete, we cut the on-line novel and publisher offer for printing once we completed the story. Now it's already in printing copy which is got some amendments from the e-novel. You can read online e-novel at http://novel2u.blogspot.com (I presume Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia not much different and you can understand it). If you would like to do the same, we may write on-line novel too ... :-)

don't misunderstand. i have never written a single script, except unpublished play scripts which were played on amateur stages in my village to celebrate our independence day. i read it (the character breakdown) in a book about acting, titled Acting handbook. as i said, i only wrote some teen lit short stories, a long time ago. they used to be published in Aneka (you know, a teen magazine in indonesia). writing those simple short stories with one or two main characters, the character sheet is only in my imagination

Ow! I know ANEKA! But I didn't read the magazines. But at least I know that you are a real writer! WOW! I know a writer, from my own country! LOL... I am from Indonesia too fyi. And you wrote a script for a play last august? how did it go?

Well... I want to be a script writer, but since I don't really know how and I don't think I am talented enough to be one, so I don't. LOL. No, I am not a script writer. Your character sheet are much more that I can imagine, how would you wrote such sheets like educational, skill etc... I mean.. wow! I know that those details would influence so much in making a strong character. You would be able to make this character adapt to many situations with his/her own way. So you are a writer? Is it already published? In what language and where can I get them?