Using Motivational Quotes to Build a Better Villain
When conventional motivation fails, turn to Goodreads for inspiration
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3 min readOct 29, 2019
We love to loathe villains. We desire to detest antagonists. But writing a good bad guy is hard. That’s because we struggle to relate to evilness, because we’re not actually evil ourselves. How do you write a character whose methods you fundamentally disagree…