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Oh, you know what else helped? The third friend. Yeah, the tight friend group is actually three. They’re all really tight, except these two happen to be tighter because they’ve gone through a little more together, plus, their personalities connect naturally on a deeper level.

In earlier drafts, this third guy got sidelined. Now I’m doing a little better at showing all three of them interacting together. The more I get readers to think of this group as three, not 2 +1, the far more it’ll seem brotherly.

…Speaking of brotherly, these days, while you can do it, it’ll be harder to write a really tight relationship between two unrelated male characters. But I think you can still get away with intense love in father-son and brother-brother relationships.