10 Toxic Bad Relationship Habits That Will Leave Your Fictional Character Single

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10 Toxic Bad Relationship Habits That Will Leave Your Fictional Character Single

1. They take their significant other for granted

2. They betray their significant other’s trust too many times

3. They won’t give the other character any personal time or space

4. They are always comparing their boyfriend or girlfriend to others

5. They have unrealistic expectations

6. They stop caring about their hygiene

7. They stop caring about the way they look and dress

8. One character has deep insecurity issues

9. One character continually finds excuses not to do any work

10. One character finds out the other is spying on them in their free time

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10 Toxic Bad Relationship Habits That Will Leave Your Fictional Character Single

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 bad habits affect others? What are the consequences of certain combined bad habits?

Has your character been spying on their significant other?

Do they get caught?

Do they find out more than they ever wanted to know?

Do they get a restraining order?

Do the authorities get involved?

Where do your characters’ bad habits lead them?

Do they get jail time?

Do they lose friends and family?

In other words, feel free to think through what bad habits you want them to have and how bad habits can affect each other and have a compound effect on your fictional character. We hope you are able to use 10 Toxic Bad Relationship Habits That Will Leave Your Fictional Character Single to help you think through creative bad habits for your stories.

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We’re working on a bad habits series for fictional characters right now so feel free to look around to see more ideas for bad habits for your Fictional Characters. Use these toxic bad habits freely, but don’t overload any one character with all of them.

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10 Toxic Bad Habits For Your Fictional Character’s Relationship that Are Surprisingly Dangerous

1. Trying to always help the other person and never asking for help

2. Moving in together before marrying

3. Always paying for everything and not letting the other person pay for anything

4. Never dreaming with the other person and always smashing “Dream Talks” where the other can dream about the future

5. Being overly passive and always giving in to what the significant other wants

6. Wishing the significant other acted more like your character’s other friends or family

7. Being Jealous of other relationships

8. Comparing the relationship to other peoples’ relationships and whether or not what they have is better

9. Using Scare tactics and fear to manipulate them into being the person you want them to be

10. Worshiping your significant other

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Toxic bad habits like these help writers think about what goes on in a character’s mind.

Giving fictional characters toxic 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 toxic 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 bad habits affect others? What are the consequences of certain combined toxic bad habits?

Do your characters move in with each other?

New studies are showing surprisingly that couples that move in together and even sleep together before marriage are not as happy as couples that wait for marriage. Even more of these move-in couples end up in divorce than those that wait.

How can you use these new cultural ideas to shape a story into a surprise that your readers aren’t expecting?

Do they find out more about their partner than they wanted to know?

Do they get into more fights after moving in?

Do they annoy each other in ways they didn’t expect?

Where do your character’s bad habits lead them?

Do they lose a friend?

Do they lose an apartment after a breakup?

In other words, feel free to think through what bad habits you want them to have and how bad habits can affect each other and have a compound effect on your fictional character. We hope that 10 Toxic Bad Habits For Your Fictional Character’s Relationship that Are Surprisingly Dangerous helps you think through writing ideas that will help make your fictional characters come to life.

Happy writing 🙂

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Minacious bad habits are bad habits that are threatening. By creating bad habits that threaten your character’s relationship you have a great set up for potentially interesting conflict amongst your characters.

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1. Desiring their attention above anyone else’s

2. Telling a lie to guard their feelings

3. Never disagreeing on anything

4. Playing “the game”

5. Posting everything on social media

6. Making the other character their god

7. Being jealous of their significant other’s achievements

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Bad habits make writers think about what goes on in a character’s mind.

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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.

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Questions to ponder:

Do some bad habits affect others? What are the consequences of certain combined bad habits?

Do they play games in the relationship?

It is commonly thought that some “games” are necessary to keep things rolling in the relationship, but using these manipulative tactics can have tremendous negative consequences.

How can you use the “normal” relationship games to cause conflict in your fictional characters’ relationships?

Does one character secretly take revenge on the other when they feel slighted instead of talking it out?

Do they ruin a piece of their clothing on purpose because they are mad at them?

Do they choose to press their buttons hoping it will lead to a resolution?

Where do your character’s bad habits lead them?

Do they break up?

Do they end up fighting more?

Does it get violent?

Do they lose an apartment after the breakup?

In other words, feel free to think through what bad habits you want them to have and how bad habits can affect each other and have a compound effect on your fictional character. I hope that Toxic Bad Habits For Your Fictional Character’s Relationship that Are Astonishingly Minacious helps you think through creative writing ideas to make your character more interesting to your reader.

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1. Checking their phone while the other person is talking to them

2. Never owning any fault and just blaming the other person for all the problems

3. Never looking for ways to get out of the boring regular daily routine

4. Never complimenting the other person or saying thank you

5. Always looking for the wrong the other person did and complaining about it

6. Constantly being needy and demanding things of the other spouse

7. Always feeling self-conscious and asking the other person if they love them or not

8. Never learning how to compromise and create a win-win scenario in the relationship

9. Getting in the habit of making their partner jealous in order to gain love, affection and attention

10. Expecting their spouse to be able to always read their mind

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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 bad habits affect others? What are the consequences of certain combined bad habits?

Do they get easily angered and yell at the drop of a hat?

Maybe they punch walls and doors out of their uncontrolled anger issues?

This bad habit could lead them to break their hand.

They could go further and become violent in the home leading to abuse, police calls and jail time.

Where do your characters’ bad habits lead them?

Do they end up losing their marriage and family at the same time?

Are bad habits a part of your decision making in how your character acts toward other characters? Do your character’s bad habits affect the way that other characters think about them?

In other words, feel free to think through what bad habits you want them to have and how bad habits can affect each other and have a compound effect on your fictional character. I hope these bad relationship habits that’ll haunt your fictional character help you get creative ideas for writing.

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Bad habits writers think about what goes on in the mind of a character.

Writing bad habits into our fictional characters’ daily habits is a good and natural way to create conflict and resolution between our fictional characters.

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 bad habits affect others? What are the consequences of certain combined bad habits?

Do they smoke and drinks habitually?

Maybe they have chronic bad breath and are habitually dehydrated from drinking?

Smoking and drinking can both have negative effects on heart health causing high blood pressure, high resting heart rate, and causing heart disease in some.

Do other characters eventually find their smoking unattractive?

Do they not like their chronic bad breath?

So 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 these 10 breakup worthy bad relationship habits help you on your writing journey.

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4. Being a worrywart

5. Oversleeping

6. Being late because of lack of sleep

7. Checking your hair every hour all-day

8. Addiction to speeding

9. Judging everyone

10. Mooching

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Bad habits can lead to certain consequences. 

Will they get injured because of their bad choices?

Will they lose friends?

Will they lose money?

Will they grow in debt?

Write some of your fictional characters with these personal bad habits in order to make them appear to be bad with certain habits.

Why you would want to be thinking about bad habits for your fictional characters that you are writing?

Bad habits help your audience resonate with your characters.

They make our characters more believable and more human.

Adding a few bad habits to our characters including personal bad habits will make them more enjoyable to our readers. After all, no human is perfect and that should include not all but most of our fictional characters.

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Bad habits in fitness can lead to certain consequences. 

Will they get injured because of their bad choices?

Will they want to start exercising?

Will they be handicapped?

Will a bully make fun of them for their lack of athleticism?

Write some of your fictional characters with these bad habits in order to make them appear to be bad with certain physical habits.

Why you would want to be thinking about bad habits for your fictional characters that you are writing?

Bad habits help your audience resonate with your characters.

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Adding a few bad habits to our characters including bad physical habits will make them more enjoyable to our readers. After all, no human is perfect and that should include not all but most of our fictional characters.

Hope this helps!

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How to Give Secondary Characters in Our Stories More Purpose

Does Every Character Have a Purpose for Being in the Story?

Readers will notice when you introduce a secondary character. 

If that character has no purpose in the story by the end, that can leave our reader confused, underwhelmed or worse, disinterested and disengaged. Make sure every character has a purpose to the story, even if the impact may be minimal to the overarching outcome of the story. 

Ways to incorporate every character:

  • Your secondary character shares a different perspective that causes your main character to make a decision
  • Your secondary character encourages your main character when no one else will
  • Your secondary character has the influence and power to do a favor for the main character
  • Your secondary character is an unexpected help
  • Introduce an unexpected love interest

How to Give Secondary Characters in Our Stories More Purpose

Your secondary character shares a different perspective.

Your main character needs some help. They just don’t know it yet.

This could be because they are stubborn and narcissistic, or they just don’t realize it.

Having a secondary character that brings a needed perspective to your main character carries the story where it needs to go and makes the secondary character valuable to your reader.

Your secondary character encourages your main character.

Your main character is downtrodden and can’t go any further on their journey.

Your secondary character says something no one else is willing to say.

That is when your main character realizes they can’t give up, not yet.

Make your secondary character the encouragement your main character needs in order to keep moving forward.

Your secondary characters have influence your main character needs.

Your main character needs to get across the world in 2 days but they don’t have the money or resources.

Introduce the rich character that has the private jet and any car you might need.

This character doesn’t have to be deep as much as a means to an end and a willing supporter.

Introduce secondary characters when your reader least expects it.

Throw in a character that your main character needs but don’t let your reader know about them until the last second.

Put your main character into a bind that they can’t get out of on their own and then have the secondary character swoop in and save them at the last second.

Introduce love that no one saw coming.

Your main character doesn’t know it but the most interesting love interest of their life is about to walk through the door.

Your reader should be as surprised as your main character.

Introduce this secondary character as unexpected love and your reader won’t question their existence at all.


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10 Great Fantasy Writing Prompts To Help Inspire your Writing Today

  1. Write about a family that is magical but after 400 generations of magic, they birth one unmagical child.
  2. Write a character who is a kleptomaniac (compulsive thief). One day they wake up to realize every object they’ve ever stolen has come to life. 
  3. Write about a child who has always blamed their mistakes on an imaginary person. On the child’s 30th birthday, they awake to find this imaginary person they blamed everything on has come to life.
  4. Write about a character who picks up a book written in a language they’ve never heard of before. Strangely, they can read and understand every word.
  5. Write about a country that hasn’t been discovered yet.
  6. Write about a species of bugs that only come above ground once every 1,200 years. Their arrival is completely unexpected, and their intentions are truly sinister. 
  7. Your character’s sister mysteriously vanishes. The quest to find her is one that reveals many secrets about the family’s dark past.
  8. The country is in a panic. The reason? Magic, an art lost over 600 years ago, has been discovered in the slums.
  9. While walking in an unknown part of the forest, your character discovers a cave with a strange egg inside. When they visit the egg again, they instead find a baby beast they never knew existed. Now it’s up to them to raise it.
  10. Write about a character that makes a wish on a star. The next day they realize their wish has come true. The bad part? They worded their wish wrong… very, very wrong.

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Great fantasy writing prompts can help you flex your creative skills and improve your writing style. By stepping out of your comfort zone, you may discover that you have found your new passion! You can expand your wheelhouse of imagination by starting with a simple idea and expanding on it. You are the captain AND the navigator and can steer your story in any way you please 🙂

Fantasy writing gives you the freedom to make the story as wild as you want. There are no rules and no limitations. You can create the perfect world, or take the opposite approach and build a world no human could ever survive. 

Finding daily writing prompts like these can help overcome writer’s block and get the creative juices flowing!

As long as you can follow your imagination and let your words flow then there is no telling where you and your characters might end up. Half the fun is going on the journey with your characters and no one will help them get there without you. So grab your pencil or laptop and take that first step out their front door that ends with a world of possibilities.

Whether it’s non-fiction or fiction writing prompts, either can work to help a writer break out of the same toolbox they may be working in. Sometimes it can be helpful to find a good writing prompts generator but google and Pinterest work just as well, and Reddit writing prompts too.

Take your time, look up some fun writing prompts, and take the leap. Start writing your own fantasy story today. You can start with one of these prompts, or combine a few. Who knows? You just might be surprised with where you land.

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  1. Great villains seek revenge.
  2. Great villains are often jealous of the hero.
  3. Great villains are master manipulators.
  4. Great villains are incredulous liars.
  5. Great villains are super arrogant.
  6. Great villains take whatever they want.
  7. Great villains don’t care about others.
  8. Great villains hurt innocent people.
  9. Great villains are occasionally kind.
  10. Great villains betray those that feel close to them.
  11. Great villains use others.
  12. Great villains are not fools.

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