In real life people
have many different problems to deal with. In fiction, characters tend to have
the one problem. They struggle to deal with it but it’s always there, affecting
them and the story you’ve put them in.
This is necessary
for fiction, otherwise things would be too vague and woolly. We need the cop to
be an alcoholic, the kid to be scared of going to school, the woman to be
obsessed with getting married, and so on. It doesn’t really matter if their
issue is one we’ve seen before (like the ones I’ve just mentioned), because it
isn’t the actual problem that people are interested in, it’s how it’s dealt
with.
Which means you have
to show it being dealt with.
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