How to Create the Perfect Villain for Your Novel

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Tip 1 - How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Scott Feenan | permalink

Creating a credible villain for fiction writing stereotypically evil or just "icky" traits. It requires a delicate balance of bad and, yes, even good to bring a measure of believability to the villain in a tale or novel. === Creating Your...
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Tip 2 - How to Create Characters for Your Novel

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Ben Little | permalink

Tips on how to create characters for your novel that are believable, memorable, functional, and 3-dimensional.
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Tip 3 - 6 Ways to Write Better Bad Guys | WritersDigest.com

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Yerko Bain | permalink

With the following tips in mind, reread your manuscript with an eye toward making your antagonist as compelling as your protagonist.

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Tip 4 - Is Your Novel Required to Have a Villain? | Advanced Fiction Writing

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Nessola William RUSMC | permalink

When writing your novel, do you absolutely have to have a villain? Can the “bad guy” be society? Can it be the environment? I went out of town a couple of weeks ago to go to a writing conference (had a wonderful time, saw many of my friends, made a number of new ones) and …

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Tip 5 - Creating the Perfect Villain - Dead Good

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by joyce keane | permalink

The Writers' Academy offers up tips and guidance on how to create the perfect villain.

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Tip 6 - How To Write The Bad Guy

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Avinash Bharadwaj | permalink

writersfriend: “ By whatever name they’re called—villain, antagonist, bad guy, nasty character—the characters who stand in opposition to your protagonists are integral to your novels. He, she, or...
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