2023 Character-Building Challenge: Day 6
Make the most of March by participating in the first ever Character-Building Challenge. Writer’s Digest provides free daily tasks for the first 10 days of March to help writers unlock compelling new characters. For Day 6, create someone who loves or despises one of your characters.
For the sixth day of this challenge, create someone who loves or despises one of your characters. There are many types of love, so it could be romantic love or the love a parent feels for a child (or a friend). And when it comes to loathing, well, have at it, and for whatever reason.
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Here's my attempt at a lover and/or loather:
Stephen Thomas Snyder (or Killer)
Killer does not like Abraham. One big reason is that Killer really likes JJ, but she turns down all his advances and spends a lot of time with Abraham. Beyond that, Abraham recently publicly humiliated Killer in the cafeteria by pointing out how JJ can only say no so many times and that "no means no" drawing laughs from a neighboring table. On top of all that, Abraham has just always got on Killer's nerves since elementary school, when he first started calling him "Honest Abe" all the time...until Abraham finally snapped and punched Killer in the face in middle school. In fact, the more Killer thinks about it the more he feels that Abraham has been hostile for far too long and Killer should do something about it.
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
