A Special Kind of Evil

Writing villains is easy. Writing GOOD villains is substantially more difficult. As with any character, they need to have a reason to exist, and often a reason for their evil. They have to have motivations that are grounded in reality, motivations that make sense. Even if that sense is twisted, we still have to be able to following the reasoning behind it.

The idea for this blog post came from a Twitter Tweet about a work in progress by colleague Alex Bledsoe . Alex and I have had stories published in the same anthology twice -- in Sidekicks! and in Haunted: Eleven Tales of Ghostly Horror -- and his novels and short stories are well worth your time to buy and read. Here's Alex's tweet:

"All right, I've written up to the point that my vaguely superhero-ish hero and slightly supernatural villain are finally face to face. Now all I have to do...

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