Create Believable “Troubled” Characters by Studying Personality Disorders.

Personality disorders can create a distorted self-image.  by Anne R. Allen. Most of the truly rotten villains in fiction are what used to be called “psychopaths.” (Now clinically known as people with ASPD: Anti-Social Personality Disorder.) These are people who have no conscience and no empathy. But psychopaths can make boring fiction. Psychopathic villains have […]

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