Types Of Character Flaws

Elise L. Blake
Writer’s Daily Digest
3 min readJul 1, 2022

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Your characters will be better for not being perfect

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When writing your novel you may want your protagonist to be absolutely perfect in every way with no flaws whatsoever, but flaws are often what create conflict, tension, and readability for your readers in your novel.

There are three types of flaws you can give your characters:

Minor

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Elise L. Blake
Writer’s Daily Digest

Full-time writing coach and novelist. Elise is a recent college graduate where she earned her BA in Creative Writing.