Character Chemistry: How To Make Fictional Relationships Feel Real (With 3 Useful Writing Exercises)
Nov 24, 2020
Once you’ve created your unique, complex and wonderful characters (see here for more information about how to create interesting characters) you need to form relationships between them. I don’t mean this merely in the romantic sense — your character relationships can be familial, platonic, rivalries or romantic.
The first thing to remember is that like the characters themselves, the relationship between characters should be complex. If you want to create a friendship, remember that they won’t see eye to eye on everything. Equally, if creating a rivalry, they may agree on certain ideas.
