List of 10 Bad Habits Fictional Characters Need Help Breaking
This a continuation of a series on bad habits for fictional characters.
We made lists of habits for fictional characters to help inspire writers to write more dynamic characters.
Habits like these help bring our characters to life and help our reader resonate with them on an emotional level.
We’ll be adding new content often, check back for more ideas.
List of 10 Bad Habits Fictional Characters Need Help Breaking:
- Abusing prescription medications
- Easily aggressive, angry, and violent (possibly abusive)
- Smoking 10 packs a day (not just casual smoking. A severe addiction to nicotine
- A drug addiction (heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines)
- Uncontrollable alcoholism
- Having affairs
- Addiction to fighting
- Cleptomaniac
- Chronic Mental Abuse
- Physical Abuse
List of 10 Bad Habits Fictional Characters Need Help Breaking
You might ask yourself why you would want to be thinking about bad habits for your characters that you are writing.
Bad habits help your audience resonate with your character.
They make our characters more believable.
Adding a few bad habits to our characters will make them more enjoyable to our readers. After all, no human is perfect and that should include not all but most fictional characters.
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List of 10 Bad Habits Fictional Characters Need Help Breaking
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Thank you Traci. We hope you enjoyed 10 bad habits and that it helps you think through your characters and bad habits they may carry.