Conflict: HAVING FEELINGS FOR SOMEONE ONE SHOULDN'T

HAVING FEELINGS FOR SOMEONE ONE SHOULDN'T

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HELPFUL TIP:

Conflict is your story’s secret sauce, supplying tension, relationship friction, and complications to a character’s journey. It comes in a million different forms, so identify the obstacles and problems that will hit your character the hardest by using the Character Builder to uncover their primary insecurities, fears , and desires. Don’t forget to include everyday conflict scenarios that will frustrate them and keep the pressure high.

Desiring a family member's spouse
Wanting a relationship with a friend's significant other
A professor having feelings for a student (or vice-versa)
An employer wanting to be with their employee
Having feelings for a co-worker (when fraternization is not allowed or the co-worker is with someone else)
A married person developing feelings for someone else (who may also be spoken-for)
Developing feelings for someone who is much older or much younger
Falling for one's enemy, opponent, or captor
An officer wanting to be with a subordinate
Wanting a friendship to become something more when that friend has other romantic interests
Being attracted to someone of a specific gender that causes the character to fear rejection (and so they think they shouldn't have those feelings)

HAVING FEELINGS FOR SOMEONE ONE SHOULDN'T

HELPFUL TIP:

CATEGORY:

EXAMPLES:

MINOR COMPLICATIONS:

POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS RESULTS:

RESULTING EMOTIONS:

POSSIBLE INTERNAL STRUGGLES:

PEOPLE WHO COULD BE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED:

NEGATIVE TRAITS THAT COULD MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE:

IMPACT ON BASIC NEEDS:

WOUNDS THIS COULD LEAD TO:

POSITIVE TRAITS TO HELP THE CHARACTER COPE:

POSITIVE OUTCOMES: