5 steps to craft a great villain with prowritingaid -k8凯发
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research villains in your genre
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goal
- figure out type of villain of your genre
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questions
- villain's goal
- type of villains
- violent/non-violent
- backstory
- your opinions
- relate to you?
- why relatable?
- things you don't like about
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figure out the traits of a good villain
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find the traits of a 'good' villain
- not necessarily good
- people enjoy reading about
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traits
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turbulent/dark backstory
- understand their behavior
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likable character traits
- nice parts of the villain
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good qualities should be there
- don't redeem evils
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goal
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opposite
- protagonist
- equal
- compare the goals of a hero
- smart
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terrible qualities
- nasty things
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craft a good backstory for your villain
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reason
- make villain's behaviors understandable
(not totally though)
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checklist
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something terrible that could happen to the villain
- in line with the character traits
- other authors do with their villains' backstories
- character questionnaire
- the past is painful enough to affect present actions
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note your villain's goal
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purpose
- know what they want to achieve
- have a good reason for that
- equal and opposite
- driven by awful backstory
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examples
- bill lumbergh
- inspector javert
- jigsaw
- khan noonien singh
- loki
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write your villain
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villain playlist
- remind you of villain
- villain's attitude or personality
- quotes
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free write in villain's perspective
- write from villain's perspective
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keep character questionnaires to hand
- villain's behaviors