(This is the fifth in a weekly series about tools for writers. For the rest of the series, go here.)
For fiction writers: I love the free Eclectic Writer’s Character Chart, which has spaces to fill in everything from the color of your hero’s eyes to the person he secretly admires. An HTML version is here, but I’m addicted to the printable PDFs, which are a whopping 5 pages but are formatted beautifully. You’ve got to write small in some of these boxes (the box for “Hometown,” which should be one or two words, is the same size as the box for “Type of childhood,” which I imagine should be a short paragraph!) but for the most part these are pretty good. And you can’t beat the price.