flaws
April 4, 2008 at 12:22 pm (characters) (author, book, books, character, character building, characterization, characters, creative writing, fiction, habits, novel, novels, vice, weaknesses, writing)
Everyone talks a lot about how characters need to have flaws to make them interesting. I haven’t made ‘lists of weaknesses’ in some time, but there’s a contest on the Mental Floss website that would be great inspiration for developing some terrible weaknesses, compulsions, and disgusting habits.
