Physical and Mental Health
This post is all about the physical problems that characters have that make them interesting. As I’ve mentioned previously, conflict is what drives a story, and there are times when the conflict can arise directly from the character. Ace’s PTSD, for example. Ace was unique, because she’s an Exceptional. They can’t have physical health problems, so I had to go down the mental health route. This is the option I prefer to use for my characters when it is appropriate. The reason is simple, I’ve had to deal with depression since I was about seventeen. It went undiagnosed until I was almost twenty. I was lucky to have people who recognized the symptoms and were able to get me the help I needed. This experience has influenced my writing as I’ve developed my various characters and plots. When I first started writing, most of my main characters didn’t have flaws. I thought they did, but I was just deceiving myself. I created these perfect characters, in part,