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Only a week left until March, and only a little over a month left before Cedwig!!! Are you getting excited? I know I am. My copies are supposed to get here this week, and I can't wait to hold it in my hands. We might even do a little giveaway to celebrate...

But as usual, I digress.

This week is all about dynamic duos, and today we're focusing on one of the most common pairs:

The Power Couple

Usually it's a man and a woman, but sometimes it can be like the hero-sidekick relationship. Whatever the case, the Power Couple is a writer and reader favorite, because we can all relate to wanting someone to share literally everything with. We all want the other half of our power couple, and some of us find it best through fiction.

But, as usual, there are a few things to keep in mind when writing the Power Couple.

1. Mismatched Strengths

This is one of the things a lot of writers forget to do. They give their Power Couple strengths, but they tend to have the same exact strengths. Thing is, they'd be weak in the same places if that were the case, and then they wouldn't be powerful.

Generally, you want your Power Couple to be slightly opposite each other. One could be good at fighting but terrible at people skills, and the other could be great with people but have no idea how to properly hold a gun. Whatever the case, try to make it so the couple seems as though they wouldn't function without each other. It makes it a whole lot more fun when the story drives them apart for even a short amount of time.

2. Matching Goals

Throughout your story, your Power Couple need to have the same goals. But they should also have differing ideas on how to carry them out. It makes for better dynamics in your story, because even your characters don't know how they're going to get this done.

So, although they think and act very differently from each other, there needs to be one thing that keeps them together, no matter what. Their goal is the thing that unites them, perhaps even the thing that caused them to band together in the first place. If they lost sight of that goal, they'd quickly lose sight of each other as well, and your story would soon fall apart.

Trust me, I've seen it happen, by my own hands.

And I write a lot.

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{Rani Divine}