Writing Tips

List of Flaws

A/N: When you begin writing your story, it is important to give your characters flaws because nobody is perfect. It is normal to have imperfections as they are proven that we are not  all perfect.

Absent-minded – Preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one's immediate surroundings.

Abstracted, daydreaming, inattentive, oblivious, forgetful.

Abusive – Characterized by improper infliction of physical or psychological maltreatment towards another.

Addict – One who is addicted to a compulsive activity. Examples: gambling, drugs, sex.

Aimless – Devoid of direction or purpose.

Alcoholic – A person who drinks alcoholic substances habitually and to excess.

Anxious – Full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear of danger or misfortune; greatly worried; solicitous.

Arrogant – Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. Inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior. Snobbish.

Audacious – Recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; braze, disobedient.

Bad Habit – A revolting personal habit. Examples: picks nose, spits tobacco, drools, bad body odor.

Bigmouth – A loud-mouthed or gossipy person.

Bigot – One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

Blunt – Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion. Frank, callous, insensitive, brusque.

Bold – In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent. Abrupt, brazen, cheeky, brassy, audacious.

Callous – They are hardened to emotions, rarely showing any form of it in expression. Unfeeling. Cold.

Careless - Showing or caused by a lack of attention.

Childish – Marked by or indicating a lack of maturity; puerile.

Complex – An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear. (List specific complex.)

Cruel – Mean to anyone or anything, without care or regard to consequences and feelings.

Cursed – A person who has befallen a prayer for evil or misfortune, placed under a spell, or borne into an evil circumstance, and suffers for it. Damned.

Dependent – Unable to exist, sustain oneself, or act appropriately or normally without the assistance or direction of another.

Deranged – Mentally decayed. Insane. Crazy. Mad. Psychotic.

Dishonest – Given to or using fraud, cheating; deceitful, deceptive, crooked, underhanded.

Disloyal – Lacking loyalty. Unfaithful, perfidious, traitorous, treasonable.

Disorder – An ailment that affects the function of mind or body. (List the disorders name if they have one.) See the Mental Disorder List.

Disturbed – Showing some or a few signs or symptoms of mental or emotional illness. Confused, disordered, neurotic, troubled.

Dubious – Fraught with uncertainty or doubt. Undecided, doubtful, unsure.

Dyslexic – Affected by dyslexia, a learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words.