{"id":1463,"date":"2009-05-18T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T03:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2009-05-18T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T03:03:14","slug":"what-makes-a-memorable-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Memorable Villain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=699\">unlikeable characters<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and villains.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0One of my writing lists had a recent discussion about villains.\u00c2\u00a0 What makes a villain memorable?\u00c2\u00a0 How can the writer make a villain that is more than a two-sided paper cutout?<\/p>\n<p>For some, the villain had to be &#8220;bad&#8221; but have humane qualities.\u00c2\u00a0 For others, memorable villains reflect\u00c2\u00a0a dark side of the reader.<\/p>\n<p>Writers can create those memorable villains by giving them an unexpected characteristic.\u00c2\u00a0 The villain\u00c2\u00a0could have\u00c2\u00a0a soft spot for black cats or mimes.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Creating memorable characters &#8211; heroes or villains &#8211; is like putting a puzzle together.\u00c2\u00a0 The pieces have to fit together perfectly.\u00c2\u00a0 If the character doesn&#8217;t ring true there&#8217;s usually something about the motivation or viewpoint that is slightly off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I wrote about unlikeable characters\u00c2\u00a0and villains.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0One of my writing lists had a recent discussion about villains.\u00c2\u00a0 What makes a villain memorable?\u00c2\u00a0 How can the writer make a villain that is more than a two-sided paper cutout? For some, the villain had to be &#8220;bad&#8221; but have humane qualities.\u00c2\u00a0 For others, memorable villains&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1463\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Makes a Memorable Villain?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}