One of @Lareine's biggest crusades is making it the characters are wrong. This is a very important point of stakes and developing character relationships, because if people aren't wrong then there's no reason to doubt they'll achieve their goals, which makes the climax and general arc for following the characters actually be scary.
And this is probably my biggest bad habit, when it comes to writing. My MCs are usually in positions they can't be wrong, and as a result they do everything in their power to make sure they are never wrong. Which means there are no stakes.
So how do you put in character mistakes? Does it come naturally to you, or do you have to remind yourself that the characters need to get in trouble at some point? If it doesn't come naturally to you, how do you keep it your characters make mistakes?
For me, I try to actively plot major events around a mistake. Found the wrong person? Let their guard down at the wrong time? Made an assumption that is spectacularly incorrect? That is now a major scene, and I have to have the results after the fact, and play out how and why those mistakes happened and there is going to be pain as a result.
What about you?
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