answer:Why are you wanting to wait a whole year to come back to it? Imo, if you use a spreadsheet, your characters will be boring, chopping, and robotic. Simply listing their traits makes them less human (unless your characters aren’t human). In my CW classes we’ve discussed similar issues. It’s better to write up 1 page descriptions using full sentences. Describe your characters as if you were telling their own personal story to someone who has never met them before. I think the best thing to do is to first type up everything you have, just to have it all on a electronic file; if you leave this story for a year, your handwritten pieces could go missing or get destroyed, so you don’t want to take the chance. In my experience, if I left a story alone for a whole year, I would have to re-write everything. The story will be very different, because you have changed as a person, and you’re writing will most likely be better than it was a year earlier.