A great villain in literature is complex, terrifying, tortured, and sometimes vulnerable. While you might already know a bit about how you want your villain to act as the bad guy, it can be difficult to create a multi-faceted character that draws your re
This internal villain is projected onto a character or multiple characters. Thus, the villain is a shadow form of the character, and often the way to defeat the villain is by making peace with it. I think this also enables us to make an observation about conflict itself: Good external conf...
If you want to write good fiction, you need a character who creates tension and who is at odds with the forces of good. Here are some tips and ideas for creating complex villains for your stories: Choose a model for your villain: an ordinary person, a celebrity, or a notorious criminal...
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The villain has been hired to recover money from a drug deal a man found and claimed for himself (Anton Chigurh in Cormac McCarthy’sNo Country for Old Men) In each case, we see the situations and conditions that led to villains’ choices within the time of the story. ...
Avoid The 100% Evil Villain Authors generally get it that rounded fictional characters need to be endowed with both good and bad traits but, for some reason, many writers ignore this rule when it comes to their villains. Not giving the bad guys a single redeeming feature is a terrible idea...
I chose Nurgle originally as I kind of like their wicked cruelty mixed with humor in the background – I don’t usually mind playing the villain in games because I either win (yay!) or the bad guys the story lose (also yay!). I wrote up a fun background for them for the Vigilus...
In the world of mystery, crime, and thriller fiction, it can seem like an all-purpose label for books that don’t fit the other, increasingly blurry categories. Know who the villain is?—not a mystery. Single narrator?—not a typical thriller. Bad things happening but not, technically, ...
TheChansosounded like a good form to get back into the poetry habit. Why? Freedom! Five to six stanzas punctuated by an envoy about half the size of the stanza. Same syllable count per line, and uniform rhyme scheme across stanzas. P.S., this is harder than I remember. ...
‘Orror, I calls him”, says Lestrade). One of the high points of the series, with a splendid performance from Miles Mander at its centre. Oh, and Evelyn Ankers (did I mention Evelyn Ankers? Oh, I see I did) gets to play a villain and she’s ever so good at it and…and…...