Writing villains

Do you like the villains that work from the shadows, that manipulate their prey and outsmart your protagonist? If so, here are 6 tips on how you can write a cunning and manipulative villain that will give your protagonist a headache!

100 characteristics for a bad guy antagonist - Characters

As a reader, I love to be tortured. I love the suspense, the waiting, the anticipation as a novel unfolds. It’s my favorite part of reading a story. Sure I love it when the love interests finally get together or the murderer is finally revealed, but the really fun part is the tension: The anticipation […]

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As promised, here I am, and here is the post on villains. I’ve noticed that people seem to be more sloppy with their villains than with anything else, (myself included,) and I want to shed some light on the subject. There are a bunch of writings out there about how to build a better villain, but none of them seem to fully encompass what a villain is supposed to be, or how they’re supposed to work. That is something that I find disturbing. Because while everything in writing is supposed to be…