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Villains

Warning: These 5 Points Will Help You Create Awesome Female Villains

August 17, 2015 by Sacha Black 144 Comments

Warning: These 5 Points Will Help You Create Awesome Female Villains

What is it about women that just isn’t scary? Perhaps it’s because women can represent motherhood and mothers are loving and caring. Or maybe it’s because we are (generally) smaller framed and not as physically strong as (most) men and therefore don’t epitomize the brutality of villainy.
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Filed Under: Villains, Writing, Writing Tips Tagged With: Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, character development, characters, villains, women, writing

Secrets of Antiheroes – Master Villains or Master Heroes?

April 23, 2015 by Sacha Black 37 Comments

What is it about anti-heroes that’s so damn appealing? I can’t help myself. If the protagonist is an anti-hero, I am like a salivating dog. I cant get enough of whatever it is I am reading or watching. I’m a self-confessed Antihero Addict. I want to explore what it is about them that we all love so much.

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Filed Under: blogging, Character Creation, creative writing, people observations, philosophizing, Villains, writer, Writing, Writing Tips Tagged With: antihero, antiheroes, characters, crafting characters, hero, imagination, lessons learnt, novel writing, unblocking writers block, villains, writers block, writing, writing inspiration

6 Simple Steps to Superbad Villains

April 6, 2015 by Sacha Black 39 Comments

We all love to hate bad guys, and you gave me some fantastic additions to my villain list last week, (thank you). But what I love more than hating a bad guy, is a bad guy that makes me love with them before I hate them. It makes the hate so much more intense because the author cheated me, and I hate thinking of myself as gullible, so if they did get to me, then that makes them superbad in my eyes!

I’ve been thinking about my own antagonists/villains in my WIP, and what I can do to develop them and make them more hateable because they’re loveable.

Your villain needs a redeeming quality or positive trait.  [Read more…] about 6 Simple Steps to Superbad Villains

Filed Under: blogging, Character Creation, creative writing, Literature, Villains, writer, Writing, Writing Tips Tagged With: bad guys, baddies, character creation, characters, crafting characters, creative writing, evil, evil characters, Fiction, fiction characters, genre, ideas, imagination, lessons learnt, novel writing, novels, short stories, stories, story writing, villains, write, writer, writing, writing tips

Crafting Villains Series #1 Who’s Your Ultimate Villain?

April 2, 2015 by Sacha Black 59 Comments

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April brings the start of another series, as I start to look at the villains in my novel, I thought I would share with you the things I learn. But first: Audience Participation Required… [Read more…] about Crafting Villains Series #1 Who’s Your Ultimate Villain?

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