Thursday, June 21, 2012
Hi
Today I lunch I managed to deduce an intersting opening to my war story. The villian is apparently the focus for this one, much more than the hero is. That's a bit different than maybe most stories, or novels go, but I think its the right thing to do here. Its possible he might the more intriguing of the characters anyhow, even if he is evil and stuff. It should be a particularly daunting task, as I've got to make him interesting to the reader, but at that same time, make that reader hate this guy's guts. I also have to work on the hero for this too. I am really up on the creek, because I have no idea what his name is, or what he's like. I guess its not that big of a deal, I have some ideas on what kind of character he should be too, but I should really try to have more of this stuff done before I start writing maybe.
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You don't really have to make the bad guy hated. It's better to aim for ambiguous. Make the readers end up divided because some support the bad guy, some don't. I prefer a conflict of interests/morals to an outright good vs evil.
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