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Character Nods - Development Tool for Authors

Character Nods is an app that helps fiction authors develop complex, realistic characters for their novels. The app takes into consideration a vast number of variables to analyze your characters and guide you to improving them.

The focus of Character Nods is on your protagonist and your antagonist. They are by far the most important characters of your book, and it's them you should make sure to develop properly. The reason? The interaction between protagonist and antagonist is what creates the narrative tension of your story, an absolutely critical aspect of story-telling.

Is the protagonist a thinker or a do-er? Is the antagonist driven by material possessions or personal achievements? And how do their personality traits affect the area of conflict between them?

Analyzing key personality traits, Character Nods creates a complex, analytic report of the protagonist and the antagonist of your novel, detecting problem areas and, more importantly, offering suggestions.

The developer is a published author with a PhD in English literature.

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Reviews (17)

A. G. u. Sep 17, 2019     

This app is not very good in telling the traits of your characters. For example, it called my introverted character with social anxiety and selective mutism "open and interactive with his surroundings," which doesn't fit at all. Interesting concept, but in my opinion, it heavily needs improvement. Also, you're not likely to become a good writer if you can't develop your characters yourself, although this app, if it worked properly, could help you tidy up your thoughts.

A. G. u. Aug 3, 2019     

I was having some troubles with my character's identification but this app helped me a lot. For those of you who're complaining about the saved slots, you can find the file in your phone depending. If you're using Es file, much easier to find. I can complete my characters useless behaviour thanks to this app. Keep up the great work and loving the blog also.

A. G. u. Sep 2, 2019     

I like it it's ok but can be confusing because your definitions of Personality traits differ greatly from most of the research I did online while using this app, and the limited choices of picking either or despite the fact that either the character may not fit into those traits or may need more options or simply the option to choose neither. It needs work but other than that it's not bad I will give 5 stars if this is improved thank you.

A. G. u. Dec 28, 2019     

Overall, I'd say that someone could probably pull something from this app. I however, couldn't. I feel like the app does try to distinguish characters, but it's too broad. Even though I had around 7 different traits between my characters, it gave them the same exact profile. It needs some fine tuning.

Oak. _. Jul 8, 2020     

Cool app for sure just not for me...I wish it had more critiria so that I could show more of the personality/relationships/appearance of my charectors. Also, I might be totally off as I didn't keep the app for long, but maybe there isn't room to create more than one protagonists and antagonists in detail?? Call me out if I'm wrong!

A. G. u. Aug 15, 2019     

This app's great! It's very helpful for figuring out your characters. My only issue is that i get multiple different reports for the same set of attributes. If there's multiple options for something, I want to be able to see all of them in one report.

A. G. u. Jul 19, 2019     

Finally! A writing app that isn't just a glorified database. This helps tap into what makes characters tick, and is in line with current thinking about how to write. Don't forget the companion app, Narrative Nods.

A. G. u. May 7, 2019     

I really like this app, I hope you add more things to it too! like relationship/dynamic of characters and content for secondary protags, antags and different character types etc! I really like the Generate Report

A. G. u. Aug 22, 2019     

I love how minimalistic the design is and how easy it is to use. I just finished up comparing how well my protag and antag stack up against each other and the app pointed out the flaws in my antagonist and explained the different ways I could fix it in simple terms.

A. G. u. Nov 21, 2019     

Wonderful to use when creating a new character to think a bit more about their traits and how it might impact a story. It's definitely a one of a kind app.

A. G. u. Aug 16, 2019     

Good, but I'd like to add more characters. Also 'their' looks much more charming and is more inclusive than 'his/her' all the time

A. G. u. Apr 9, 2019     

This is a really good app. It gives you great advice in making your characters have some similarities, but also conflicting ones too. Thanks for the experience!!! 😄

A. G. u. Jun 21, 2019     

OMG! the reports generated are brillant! I feel like I can understand my characters more. I love this. Kudos to the developers. Keep going. i installed Narrative Nods too and in a span of 4hrs I had my plot ready. I am so thankful for this! ps: love from India!

A. G. u. Jun 6, 2019     

Thank you so much for the work that you do, your apps have helped me immensely. ❤❤❤

A. G. u. Sep 20, 2019     

Helped me to define characters better

A. G. u. Apr 2, 2020     

The report isn't accurate at all.

A. G. u. Apr 27, 2020     

Liked it