Episode 74 - How to describe our villainous villain, and how to get unstuck.
Essential Guide to Writing a Novel - A podcast by James Thayer - Fridays
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A great pleasure in our fiction reading is coming across a dastardly villain, someone so bad and so well-described we will never forget him or her. Hannibal Lecter. Nurse Ratched. Huckleberry Finn's father Pap. How can writers create such a villain? Here are techniques, in particular regarding the physical description of the villain. Also discussed is how we can get unstuck in our plotting or writing.Support the show
