The Trouble with “Character Flaws”
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4 min readAug 8, 2022
“Characters, at least good ones, are multilayered individuals.”
If you bump around the online screenwriting universe, invariably you will find an article or post about working with a character’s flaw. Identifying a single substantive personality defect makes it easy to think about the character’s transformation and can make them more sympathetic to script readers.