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Make the boyfriend more than just "MC's boyfriend". Give him a life of his own, a (minor) role in the story beyond the doomed relationship. Maybe tell some of the "home front" part of the story f...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:26:00Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/40952 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Michael Borgwardt
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2019-12-08T10:26:00Z (almost 5 years ago)
**Make the boyfriend more than just "MC's boyfriend".** Give him a life of his own, a (minor) role in the story beyond the doomed relationship. Maybe tell some of the "home front" part of the story from his point of view. Then you also don't have to throw the character away after the breakup - he's still around, doing stuff that matters, perhaps even something relevant to the main plot.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-01-01T12:29:52Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 1