I tend to like stories where everyone has a reason and everyone is the hero in their own story. And to some degree that's true in my first book, where the primary conflict is/is meant to be between two people who both think they're doing the right thing, and while one is objectively wrong, the reader should at least have some idea of why he thinks that. But then one of my readers got to it and said, "that person, lurking in the background, that's going to be the actual villain, right?"
And said person would, in fact, be twirling a moustache were she capable of growing one, and is definitely enjoying herself more than any other character, villainy and all. And yet there were times when I was writing her where I'm like, no, she's not nearly cartoonish enough compared to IRL bad guys.
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Date: 2020-11-21 11:57 pm (UTC)And said person would, in fact, be twirling a moustache were she capable of growing one, and is definitely enjoying herself more than any other character, villainy and all. And yet there were times when I was writing her where I'm like, no, she's not nearly cartoonish enough compared to IRL bad guys.