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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42222
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To me, hate has always been an **intense desire for something to change, while believing it is resistant to that change**.

Good people can hate many things. They hate the villain. They hate their past. They hate that people are starving, or abused, or ignored. They hate it, because it doesn't have to be that way and yet it still is.

If you want to change something and it is easy to fix, it's just annoying.

A lightbulb is flickering in a room and _that's annoying_, so you change the bulb, but then it still flickers which is _frustrating_ so you get an electrician to look at it, but it still flickers and _now you hate that lightbulb_.

From that, my advice is:

- Consider how the character's hatred has evolved.
  - It probably started as a petty annoyance, but it has become a real block in their life, why is that?
- Consider how the character's hatred affects them.
  - Is it a motivator in their life to do something? Is it a demotivator? What does it do to them?
- Consider how the character's hatred manifests in their day to day.
  - Do they mutter to themselves every time they pass their rival in the street? Do they refuse to help someone because of some prejudice? What does it make them do?

That being said, hatred is not always rational and can quite easily crop up with very little rhyme or reason. But if you can understand the character's mindset, it makes it much easier to write about them.

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