tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post7752386878592690891..comments2024-03-28T05:29:45.364-04:00Comments on Heim Binas Fiction: Love Your CharactersCKHBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741681893677604323noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-65634961499480813822010-02-24T00:01:50.986-05:002010-02-24T00:01:50.986-05:00Great post. You're right. Antagonists are pe...Great post. You're right. Antagonists are people too and should be handled as such.<br /><br />My antagonist is a decent guy who cares about doing the right thing, following God's law, and enforcing the laws. Not exactly the stuff villains are made of, but he's steadily and with the best intentions out to get in the way of my MC and her friends.Kelsey (Dominique) Ridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10646757546422013401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-36718587005511779912010-02-20T13:24:42.168-05:002010-02-20T13:24:42.168-05:00Excellent post! I always love the pictures you inc...Excellent post! I always love the pictures you include.<br /><br />I absolutely love it when books and movies make bad guys likable. It shows that human beings are complex.Sandyhttp://sandyraymond.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-39853820678863264252010-02-20T09:50:42.126-05:002010-02-20T09:50:42.126-05:00oh I'm LOVING my characters.. real people make...oh I'm LOVING my characters.. real people make the best ones.. breathing thoughts and imaginations into them.. absolutely the most fun I've had in ages.<br /><br />Ages I tell you :)Shelbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02757079675613448834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-34010128988746328312010-02-19T13:24:14.819-05:002010-02-19T13:24:14.819-05:00People always forget to give the antagonist a moti...People always forget to give the antagonist a motive. It's one of the most common problems in literature and across all media.<br /><br />I really liked the Hannibal Lecter example. We need more villains like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-9377044493900013122010-02-19T10:58:00.760-05:002010-02-19T10:58:00.760-05:00Once I'm done my WIP, I'm awfully tempted ...Once I'm done my WIP, I'm awfully tempted to write a dark fantasy from the POV of the bad guy. It's not done nearly often enough, and I'd love the challenge of making the reader care for a rotten (though charming) bastard. So... yes. I agree. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-27237496533415649792010-02-19T09:17:16.672-05:002010-02-19T09:17:16.672-05:00I like X-Men's Magnito for this; raised in a N...I like X-Men's Magnito for this; raised in a Nazi camp, so he's angry & war-like, and easily sympathetic!Will Burkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10158149526658590324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-10017743697680779322010-02-19T08:31:06.505-05:002010-02-19T08:31:06.505-05:00Good points, Carrie. And I love the example of Han...Good points, Carrie. And I love the example of Hannibal Lecter! He was always my fav character in Silence of the Lambs.<br /><br />My main character cares about fulfilling her father's dying wish. My antagonist cares about fulfilling his goal of punishing those he feels responsible for his wife's murder three decades ago. <br /><br />The point of the story is how those two goals conflict with each other and how the MC has been manipulated toward achieving hers while preventing the antagonist from achieving his.Matthew Delmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452378192874048547noreply@blogger.com