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Antagonist

Writing Techniques Confounding Expectations

Start with the villain for more engaging storytelling.

Matty Dalrymple

Write Better Fiction Inside the Mind of a Villain: 8 Journeys and Motives Behind Evildoers, Antiheroes, & Antagonists Dustin Grinnell

Write Better Fiction Take Two: Creating Multi-Layered Villains You Love to Hate Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

Writing Genres Rethinking Protagonists and Antagonists: Parallel and Perpendicular Character Perspectives in Star Wars Chuck Wendig

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