Character Profile - the Main Character

Another helpful writing tip from Mangy - create a character profile! I'll make one right now only for my main character, but perhaps later I'll create smaller ones or other important characters as well. ((Which I'm going to edit and fill in later because I have yet to finish my schoolwork...))

Basic Statistics
Name: Jocelyn (Josie) Grace Williamson
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Birthdate: February 8th, 1845
Hometown(fictional): Jonastown
Current Residence: Jonastown
Occupation: Writer and teacher(not officially)
Talents/Skills: She loves to read and, especially, write. She can sew, knit...
Salary: She gets none. Her parents don't pay her.
Birth order: She's the second oldest out of 6 children
Family Relationships: (spouse, siblings, parents, etc.) Father: Adam, Mother: Ruth, Brothers: Luke, Joseph, and Caleb. Sisters: Eliza and MaryLou.

Physical Characteristics:
Height: 5'6''
Weight: About normal
Race: White
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Chocolate brown
Skin color: In between white and tan
Shape of Face: Heart
Distinguishing features: Her freckles and dark hair and eyes.
How does he/she dress? Like women during the Civil War did: blouse and skirts, or dress, petticoats...
Mannerisms: Bits lip when she makes a mistake, taps her fingers when she's writing, holds her breath when trying to keep from bursting in anger...
Habits: She twirls her hair(the end of her braid, etc...)
Health: Good
Hobbies: Reading anything she can get her hands on when she has the time, helping out at home, teaching her younger siblings, writing!, drawing, reading her Bible, spending time with her friends, telling stories and entertained her siblings, daydreaming, and frolicking in meadows ;)
Disabilities:
Greatest flaw: Her impatience and hot temper and bitterness towards things she doesn't like.
Best quality: Trying to please the Lord in everything she does and learning from her mistakes.

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes & Attitudes
Educational Background: She had to quit school at age 15 to help out at home.
Intelligence Level: High school and possibly up.
Life Learning Experiences: Her mother tries to make everything a lesson, even messing up.
Short-term goals in life: To write books
Long-term goals in life: To love and live for the Lord and to calm her temper and overcome impatientness
How does Character see himself/herself? As a writer and a learner - in more things than one
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? She knows that people get angry with her frequently but tries to do her best in pleasing them.
How self-confident is the character? Most of the time, very.
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or a combination of both? Emotion, mostly. But sometimes common sense gets ahold of her...
What would most embarrass this character? Being proposed to.

Emotional Characteristics
Strengths:
Weaknesses: Temper, impatience.
Introvert or Extrovert? Extrovert, I think
How does the character deal with anger? She tries to bottle it up but ends up venting in the wrong places later. Or she writes.
With sadness/conflict/change/loss? She writes about it or talks to God.
What does the character want out of life? To be loved and to love.
What would the character like to change in his/her life? Her flaws.
What motivates this character? God
What frightens this character? Spiders, losing her family.
What makes this character happy? Her Bible, friends
Is the character judgmental of others? She tries not to be
Is the character generous or stingy? Generous
Is the character generally polite or rude? Generally polite, unless they make her mad...

Spiritual Characteristics
Does the character believe in God? Yes
What are the character's spiritual beliefs? That God sent his only son to die for everyone's sins and that by having a personal relationship with Jesus you'll have eternal life.
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? Umm
If so, what role does it play? A big part. Her modivation for everything is God, and if it isn't, she tries to change that.

How the Character is Involved in the Story
Character's role in the novel (main character? hero? heroine? Romantic interest? etc.): Main character/Heroine
Scene where character first appears: The first scene.
Relationships with other characters:(Name each character and describe relationships and changes to relationship over the course of the story.)
Ben: Her best friend. When they were children, they told each other everything, and even now they're best friends.
Her family: She's closest to Joseph and Eliza, the two she spent the most time with growing up. MaryLou and Caleb are younger than her, but she loves them. Luke remains more distant, being the oldest brother. She tries to tell her mother almost everything and is frequently talking with her father about quite a bit of stuff.
Naomi: Her other best friend, female. She, of course, tells Naomi more than she tells Ben, even though she's only known her since they were 12. Ben, Naomi and Josie are good friends and are almost always together.
Other (girl)friends: She's not as close to any of the others as she is to Naomi and Ben, but she tries to get along with everyone, despite their differences.
How is the character different at the end of the novel from when the novel began?: (This is one of the most important things to nail down. A story that invokes change in a character will be more interesting and appealing to your reader.) ((Will fill in later))

Additional Notes on this Character: ~