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13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains: Complete Set: Textbook & Workbook
2 Jam-packed guides with over 300 pages of tips and tricks to help you master your villains
13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains
Your hero is not the most important character in your book. Your villain is.
Are you fed up of drowning in two-dimensional villains? Frustrated with creating clichés? And failing to get your reader to root for your villain?
In 13 Steps to Evil, you’ll discover:
• How to develop a villain’s mindset
• A step-by-step guide to creating your villain from the ground up
• Why getting to the core of a villain’s personality is essential to make them credible
• What pitfalls and clichés to avoid as well as the tropes your story needs
Finally, there is a comprehensive writing guide to help you create superbad villains. Whether you’re just starting out or are a seasoned writer, this book will help power up your bad guy and give them that extra edge.
These lessons will help you master and control your villainous minions, navigate and gain the perfect balance of good and evil, as well as strengthening your villain to give your story the tension and punch it needs.
13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains: Workbook
Sacha Black’s book 13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains showed writers how to create their ultimate villain in an easy and humorous, step-by-step guide.
This workbook puts those lessons to use by building on each chapter in 13 Steps to Evil and guiding you through the development of your indisputable bad guy. It’s time to get to the core of your villain and supersize that evil.
Inside the workbook you’ll find hundreds of thought provoking questions, exercises and creativity boosting prompts. This resource will help you:
• Choose the perfect villain traits
• Create sinister character histories and motives
• Avoid pesky clichés
• Design conflict and tension that grips your reader
• Build your market knowledge so you create a villain that sells
Craft your characters through easy to digest exercises that empower you to conquer your villain for life.
13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains
Your hero is not the most important character in your book. Your villain is.
Are you fed up of drowning in two-dimensional villains? Frustrated with creating clichés? And failing to get your reader to root for your villain?
In 13 Steps to Evil, you’ll discover:
• How to develop a villain’s mindset
• A step-by-step guide to creating your villain from the ground up
• Why getting to the core of a villain’s personality is essential to make them credible
• What pitfalls and clichés to avoid as well as the tropes your story needs
Finally, there is a comprehensive writing guide to help you create superbad villains. Whether you’re just starting out or are a seasoned writer, this book will help power up your bad guy and give them that extra edge.
These lessons will help you master and control your villainous minions, navigate and gain the perfect balance of good and evil, as well as strengthening your villain to give your story the tension and punch it needs.
13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains: Workbook
Sacha Black’s book 13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains showed writers how to create their ultimate villain in an easy and humorous, step-by-step guide.
This workbook puts those lessons to use by building on each chapter in 13 Steps to Evil and guiding you through the development of your indisputable bad guy. It’s time to get to the core of your villain and supersize that evil.
Inside the workbook you’ll find hundreds of thought provoking questions, exercises and creativity boosting prompts. This resource will help you:
• Choose the perfect villain traits
• Create sinister character histories and motives
• Avoid pesky clichés
• Design conflict and tension that grips your reader
• Build your market knowledge so you create a villain that sells
Craft your characters through easy to digest exercises that empower you to conquer your villain for life.
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339 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 21, 2017
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About the author
Sacha Black
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Sacha Black is an author, rebel podcaster, and professional speaker.
She has five obsessions; words, expensive shoes, conspiracy theories, self-improvement, and breaking the rules.
Sacha writes books about people with magical powers and other books about the art of writing.
When she’s not writing, she can be found laughing inappropriately loud, sniffing musty old books, fangirling film and TV soundtracks, or thinking up new ways to break the rules.
She lives in Cambridgeshire, England, with her wife and genius, giant of a son.
https://sachablack.co.uk/newsletter
Sacha Black is an author, rebel podcaster, and professional speaker.
She has five obsessions; words, expensive shoes, conspiracy theories, self-improvement, and breaking the rules.
Sacha writes books about people with magical powers and other books about the art of writing.
When she’s not writing, she can be found laughing inappropriately loud, sniffing musty old books, fangirling film and TV soundtracks, or thinking up new ways to break the rules.
She lives in Cambridgeshire, England, with her wife and genius, giant of a son.
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April 2, 2019
Pure evil awesomeness
I read a lot of writing reference books. This is in my top five favorites.
What I loved:
* The writing style is fun and engaging
* Packed with phycology based information
* It makes you dig deeper into your villain and your story
What I liked:
* Great book and movie references to back up the information
* Bullet point wrap up of information at the end of each chapter
* Important points in bold in the text
What I didn’t love:
* I loved it.
Who should read it?
* Writers who want to create an awesome villain, plot, and hero
* Anyone struggling with writing the villain
* Anyone struggling with conflict.
Who should skip it?
* If you are sensitive to strong language and sarcasm
* The author notes that this book is not about writing horror
Overall, this is a must have for writer. Go order it. Read it. Apply it.
I read a lot of writing reference books. This is in my top five favorites.
What I loved:
* The writing style is fun and engaging
* Packed with phycology based information
* It makes you dig deeper into your villain and your story
What I liked:
* Great book and movie references to back up the information
* Bullet point wrap up of information at the end of each chapter
* Important points in bold in the text
What I didn’t love:
* I loved it.
Who should read it?
* Writers who want to create an awesome villain, plot, and hero
* Anyone struggling with writing the villain
* Anyone struggling with conflict.
Who should skip it?
* If you are sensitive to strong language and sarcasm
* The author notes that this book is not about writing horror
Overall, this is a must have for writer. Go order it. Read it. Apply it.
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February 20, 2023Black is one of my favorite authors helping authors. This is the first craft book I’ve read from her, and she doesn’t disappoint. Black breaks down the essentials authors need to create conflict. Complete the workbook, and authors know not only who the ‘villain’ is in the story, buy the details of the conflict that make the hero worth cheering for.
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