Conflict: HAVING TO BREAK A PROMISE

HAVING TO BREAK A PROMISE

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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.

The character breaking off their engagement
Having to betray someone's confidence so a worse disaster may be prevented
Breaking a promise to be present for a loved one's event due to work or another constraint
Deciding to leave one's marriage
Being unable to financially support someone (through tuition, assisted living, alimony, child support, etc.)
Forfeiting parental rights due to an inability to care or provide for a child
Having to set aside religious beliefs to uphold the law (or vice versa)
Failing to meet an agreed-upon professional deadline
Having to cancel a trip or a plan with a friend
Exiting a work-related contract or verbal agreement
Discontinuing medical treatments after vowing to fight an illness
Breaking a professional oath
Deciding to take a different career path than what the character promised loved ones

HAVING TO BREAK A PROMISE

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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: