Comments on: NaNo2010 > The Bad Guys http://tavenmoore.com/2010/nano2010-the-bad-guys/ Tami and Steven Moore - Writing, Art, Love, and Everything In Between Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:59:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tami Moore » Blog Archive » NaNo2010 > Everyone’s a Hero http://tavenmoore.com/2010/nano2010-the-bad-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-4079 Tami Moore » Blog Archive » NaNo2010 > Everyone’s a Hero Tue, 04 May 2010 14:06:34 +0000 http://tamimoore.com/?p=1437#comment-4079 [...] know his motivation and why he’s pitted against your hero if you did the exercise in The Bad Guys and you’ve got a few plot points that you know need to happen in order for your plot to work, [...] [...] know his motivation and why he’s pitted against your hero if you did the exercise in The Bad Guys and you’ve got a few plot points that you know need to happen in order for your plot to work, [...]

]]> By: Tami http://tavenmoore.com/2010/nano2010-the-bad-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-3900 Tami Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:08:45 +0000 http://tamimoore.com/?p=1437#comment-3900 <strong>@Pike</strong> Watership Down is my favorite novel ever. You win SO MANY points with me. <3<3 I love the idea for your villain! I think those are my favorite kinds of villains - the ones who think they're doing the right thing. So many moral sticky bits! @Pike
Watership Down is my favorite novel ever. You win SO MANY points with me. <3<3

I love the idea for your villain! I think those are my favorite kinds of villains – the ones who think they’re doing the right thing. So many moral sticky bits!

]]> By: Pike http://tavenmoore.com/2010/nano2010-the-bad-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-3898 Pike Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:14:11 +0000 http://tamimoore.com/?p=1437#comment-3898 One of the best examples of a villain I can think of off the top of my head is General Woundwort in Watership Down. There are entire chapters devoted to really getting inside that character's head to the point where you almost sympathize with him. That definitely taught me a lot about how to create a villain, I think. He or she is human (or... whatever...) too! For the villain in my book I wanted to give him a strong motivation. Sure, he's the "bad guy", but why? I settled on him <i>thinking</i> he's doing the right thing, and having a skewed sense of ethics because of it. I also sort of borrowed from D&D alignments and designated him as "Lawful Evil"-- he doesn't see himself as being a bad guy. He thinks he's doing the right thing, likes himself too much to see it from another side, and doles out "the dirty work" to various minions because it means he can still see himself as a "gentleman" so to speak... I had a lot of fun with him ^^ Also, I agree 100% with the "respect your writers" thing. <3 .-= Pike´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.clockworkhare.com/2010/04/classic-video-game-monday-zero-wing.html" rel="nofollow">Classic Video Game Monday: Zero Wing</a> =-. One of the best examples of a villain I can think of off the top of my head is General Woundwort in Watership Down. There are entire chapters devoted to really getting inside that character’s head to the point where you almost sympathize with him. That definitely taught me a lot about how to create a villain, I think. He or she is human (or… whatever…) too!

For the villain in my book I wanted to give him a strong motivation. Sure, he’s the “bad guy”, but why? I settled on him thinking he’s doing the right thing, and having a skewed sense of ethics because of it. I also sort of borrowed from D&D alignments and designated him as “Lawful Evil”– he doesn’t see himself as being a bad guy. He thinks he’s doing the right thing, likes himself too much to see it from another side, and doles out “the dirty work” to various minions because it means he can still see himself as a “gentleman” so to speak…

I had a lot of fun with him ^^

Also, I agree 100% with the “respect your writers” thing. <3
.-= Pike´s last blog ..Classic Video Game Monday: Zero Wing =-.

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