: Re: Characters that take on a life of their own There are definite advantages to writing comprehensive character maps, but one downside that I've found is that when a character is fully fleshed

I'll only add to ask yourself if the characters are trying to do things that are tropes. Analyze your story for this.

My main male character kept trying to fall in love with the first female he met. I finally allowed him to, and I later realized the reason it seemed so predestined is because ... that dynamic is a 'thing' that happens in many stories.

If you don't want your characters falling in love (for example), you can preempt it by having something beforehand that eliminates that tension. I could make my character married, or involved, or asexual.

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