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Daddy Issues With a Screen Door
Struggles

A character wounds-and-behavior reference deck

Daddy Issues With a Screen Door

Make their bad choices bleed.

Inner Wounds That Leak Into Publicly Bad Choices for Southern Gothic Romance Characters

Villains & Morally Grey Dark Romance Gothic Romance
63 pages·PDF + printable
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Anything that reads a PDF: phone, tablet, laptop, or that one browser tab you never close. No special software.

Can I type straight into it?

Yes. The pages are fillable, so type in any PDF app, or pull it into GoodNotes and scribble. Prefer paper? Print the lot.

When do I get it?

The second you pay. It downloads from the confirmation screen and lives in your account forever for re-downloads.

Can I see it before I buy?

Yes, scroll down. The peek section shows real spreads from this exact pack, so you know exactly what you're getting.

What's Inside

Not just a prompt pack.

6 sections
  1. Porch Brooding With a Loaded Family File
  2. Dinner Table Manners That Draw Blood
  3. Mother’s Church Voice and Other Indoor Weapons
  4. The Locked Pantry Problem
  5. County Fair Choices Made While Overheated
  6. Inherited Ruin With Excellent Curb Appeal
What you get

A 48 entry PDF reference library built for Southern Gothic romance characters who make terrible public choices for painfully specific private reasons.

What it fixes

You can name a character's inner wound, but you don't know how to show it in the way they act, talk, and treat people.

Best for

For the writer whose beautiful disaster romance characters can brood on a porch like professionals but still need a sharp, convincing reason to ruin dinner, love, and possibly the county fair

Inside each prompt
  • The Struggle They were raised to believe family pain belongs behind closed doors, preferably in a cedar chest under folded linens. Telling the truth feels less like honesty and more like handing a loaded pistol…
  • How It Shows They go still when anyone asks a direct question about their people, their childhood, or why half the town lowers its voice at their last name. On the porch, they stare past the railing like the…
  • The Cost The romance keeps hitting locked rooms, missing years, and conversations that end the second they become useful. Their lover starts feeling less like a partner and more like an outsider standing on…
  • Use It Put the soft spot under a small, public detail: a church bulletin, a courthouse file, a baby picture with one face cut out. The armor cracks when the lover does not demand the whole story, just names…
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Inner wounds you can lift: the ache, where it started, and how it leaks out sideways.

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