Not Every Antogonist Must be “Bad”

I grew up reading comic books where the villain was often evil and wanted to take over the country/world/solar system/galaxy. Pick whichever level of villain, but the evil characteristic was often the same. That negative bias for the antagonist creeps into my writing more often than I would like to admit. Usually when it does, the villain is pretty two-dimensional. Trying to add additional depth often fails because, at his or her core is a being that wrings his/her hands and has a laugh reminiscent of MWAHAHAHA! So, just as an exercise, I decided to try and create a character who is a normal, flawed person like you and me. He is friendly, intelligent and well-educated. He doesn’t have warts […]

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Get Published Episode 121 – Horror Comes to Get Published

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Halloween is just around the corner. That being the case, I decided it might be fun to hear about a genre I haven’t talked about much on the show. That genre…wait for it, is horror. I know. You are probably shocked that I would have a horror writer on the show just before All Hallow’s Eve. Well, prepare to be even more shocked because I not only have one horror writer, I have three. Okay, four if I count myself. On today’s episode I have Paul E Cooley, Scott Roche and Jake Bible as my guests in a discussion about horror and horror writing. We had a great time and I […]

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