Write Every Day: Day 21

It was only after I started sketching out background and character details for my main characters that I realized I need to do the same thing for the villain of the story - I don't have four main characters, I have five and since the villain is the main driver of the story that means I need to spend at least as much time on them as I do on the heroes. It seems obvious now, but it honestly didn't occur to me during my first draft.

There is a George RR Martin quote that I see a lot - "Nobody is a villain in their own story." My challenge is to create a villain that sincerely believes that there is a good reason for every choice they make.

My story has a clear cut bad guy, what about yours? Do you tend to write a villains or do you prefer conflict between equally well-meaning characters? Are you more inclined to make the conflict in your stories between a character and their environment, rather than against another person? Or do you avoid conflict at all, and find some other way to drive the story forward?



Day 21 Tally:
china_shop, alexseanchai, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, shadaras, silveradept, brainwane, lferion, sakana17, nafs, cornerofmadness, yasaman, phrenk, auroracloud, shopfront, firecat, sanguinity, luzula, iberiandoctor, ysilme

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Let me know if I missed your name at any point. And participation is always open, so jump in with a comment any time.