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10 Toxic Habits That Ruin Fictional Character Relationships
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1. One character in the relationship is always waiting on the other and being late because of them
2. They don’t defend each other from other characters’ accusations
3. Instead of working together on stressful times they accuse and fight with each other
4. One character ignores the needs of the other whether consciously or unconsciously
5. The character shows obvious signs of discomfort during hard conversations
6. They don’t want to talk or refuse to talk to each other about money and bills
7. They habitually lie about problems instead of facing them
8. They don’t practice active listening. They get distracted while the other character talks
9. They avoid each other with work and other things to avoid talking and working on their conflicts
10. They don’t talk to each other anymore. There is an ever-growing unspoken distance between them
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10 Toxic Habits That Ruin Fictional Character Relationships
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.
Don’t overthink bad habits. 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 toxic habits that ruin relationships affect other toxic habits? What are the consequences of certain combined bad habits?
Are they slow to get dressed and ready?
Do they make the other character late for work?
Does the character lose their job because of the late one?
Do they often fight about bills?
Where do your characters’ toxic habits that ruin their relationships lead them?
Does one character avoid going home because they know it’ll end in a fight?
How far does their fighting go?
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 Habits That Ruin Fictional Character Relationships helps you think through dynamic and complex ways to make your fictional character more real to life.
Happy writing 🙂
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