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💬 It’s okay to have misunderstandings and failures to communicate as part of your story’s plot.
💬 It’s okay to have characters who struggle to understand one another.
💬 It’s okay to have characters who are guarded, suspicious and withholding of information.
💬 It’s okay to have characters who get angry, jealous or overly emotional.
💬 It’s okay to have characters who jump to conclusions from small amounts of information taken out of content.
💬 It’s okay to have characters think that they understand what someone means and be wrong about it.
💬 It’s okay to have characters who think they know more than they do.
💬 It’s okay to have characters take action based on a misunderstanding or a lack of information.
💬 It’s okay for misunderstandings and lack of information to cause failure or grief.
💬 It’s okay to have characters who ruin their relationships, temporarily or permanently, due to a lack of communication.
💬 It’s okay to have characters who talk, struggle, communicate, and fail to communicate the way real people do.
💬 Characters don’t have to be good at communicating their thoughts and intentions.
💬 It’s okay for characters to have interactions, conversations, and relationships that are messy, imperfect, or flat out awful.
Er, yes? The vast majority of fiction I read has several of these, so I’m not sure where the idea came from that it ever wasn’t okay, such that it needs to be spelled out that it is?
You’re blessed to have avoided the discourse lately.
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