How to Write Unlikable Characters
And why you might want to
7 min readJan 9, 2023
The first fiction novel I chose to read this year was about a 30-something woman who cheats on her husband with a married man. Her marriage falls apart, his doesn’t. She has a number of bad dates while she continues to date the married man . . . blah, blah, blah. I could not get into this book and could care less what happened to this character.
