💘 10 tips for writing compelling fictional friendships

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Hi, and welcome back to another installation in my writing tips and advice video! (Fantasy worldbuilding pt. 4 is coming up soon, I promise! Thank you for all your patience.)

today's video is all about writing compelling, interesting, and story-strengthening fictional friendships. While they often take a backseat to romantic relationships, friendship is yet another way to create a compelling bridge between your characters—as well potentially breed a whole lot of conflict, which pushes characters to develop in new and interesting ways! So, here are 10 simple tips on how to write interesting platonic relationships into your story.

I hope you find this video helpful or illuminating in some way! As always, my usual disclaimer applies: prescriptivist writing advice is for the birds.

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0:00 - opening
0:04 - intro
0:51 - the value of writing friendship into your stories
2:05 - tip #1: utilize tropes (especially common romance tropes!)
3:09 - tip #2: how do your characters’ platonic relationships define them?
5:08 - tip #3: fulfill character needs / have character complete each other platonically
6:00 - tip #4: trauma bond your characters
6:36 - tip #5: build character arcs THROUGH platonic relationships
7:56 - tip #6: write THEME. relate the theme of your story to friendship!
8:58 - tip #7: write character foils
10:23 - tip #8: consider writing toxic or unhealthy relationships
11:30 - tip #9: form a band! use the power of fictional friend groups, gangs, parties, etc.
12:23 - little tangent on how to write interesting fictional friend groups
13:06 - tip #9.5: make your friend group fun!!!
13:45 - tip #10: my BIGGEST fictional friendship pet peeve - don’t do this in your writing
15:07 - outro

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