on Fiction University:
Are you too nice to your characters?
Do you love your characters?
Do you wish nothing bad would ever happen to them?
Then you might suffer from Nice Writer Syndrome.
This is a common malady. We spend hours and hours creating our characters, interviewing them, filling out complicated character sheets, determining which personality they are on the Myers-Briggs Scale. They become like family, and we can’t bear the thought of doing anything bad to them.
We don’t throw them into conflict. We don’t let them get hurt. We don’t make them work for their rewards at the end of the novel (those slackers).
It can get so bad, we stop letting them leave the house, so nothing ever happens to them.
But as Dory from Finding Nemo said: “If nothing ever happens to him, then nothing will ever happen to him.”
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Nice piece. Writing characters with faults is important. Writing nice characters who aren’t always nice is grown-up writing. Often it’s the intuition of the writer. Thanks for sharing.
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