10 Toxic Bad Habits That’ll Get Your Fictional Character Fired Quick
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The List: 10 Toxic Bad Habits That’ll Get Your Fictional Character Fired Quick
1. Always being late. Habitual tardiness. Not just for the workday but for meetings
2. Blaming others for your failures at work
3. Stealing work supplies
4. Always being the one who causes or is in the middle of office drama
5. Using bad language obnoxiously and especially with customers
6. Constantly being needy and demanding things of the other spouse
7. Habitually lying about important things
8. Putting off projects too long. Procrastinating
9. Talking about the boss behind their back
10. Constantly looking to waste time and avoid work
10 Toxic Bad Habits That’ll Get Your Fictional Character Fired Quick
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Use this list to get your fictional character fired. Give her or him bad habits that make it hard for them to hold down a job anywhere. It’ll make more sense to your reader why they can’t hold down a job and if done right you can give them a good goal to look forward to if your character gets better and overcomes their bad habits and learns and grows.
Bad habits make writers think about what goes on in a character’s mind.
Giving fictional characters bad habits is a good and natural way to create conflict and resolution between your characters.
Fictional Characters need to be seen as not perfect, but as primitive and mortal. Unless of course they are immortal 😉 but even then, adding some sort of weakness to them helps our reader mesh with them.
Do your best not to overthink bad habits. Just make some work. Just work on giving your fictional character a few that make sense.
Combining three or four makes sense, but don’t overdo it with 10 or more unless they are supposed to be a real slob.
Also, figure out good consequences for the habits you give.
Do some bad habits affect others? What are the consequences of certain combined bad habits?
Do they get easily angered and yell at people easily?
Do they yell at their boss or coworkers?
This bad habit could lead them to blow up at the wrong person at the wrong time.
They could go further and become violent. They could end up getting escorted out of the building or worse, taken out in handcuffs.
Where do your characters’ bad habits lead them?
Do they end up losing their job and friendships?
Do they lose their apartment because they can’t hold down a job?
In other words, feel free to think through what bad habits you want them to have and how the bad habits can affect each other and have a compound effect on your fictional character. I hope 10 Toxic Bad Habits That’ll Get Your Fictional Character Fired Quick helps you think through bad habits that’ll make your fictional character more dynamic and believable.
Happy writing 🙂
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10 Toxic Bad Habits That’ll Get Your Fictional Character Fired Quick
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10 Toxic Bad Habits That’ll Get Your Fictional Character Fired Quick
10 Toxic Bad Habits That’ll Get Your Fictional Character Fired Quick
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