This week’s Writer’s Five
Time to get your Evil on – Questions for your WIP’s villain –
Answering for the insectlike, mountain-dwelling Khroi who afflict Morlock (and vice versa) in an upcoming novella in Black Gate; I’m hoping they will also make each other’s lives miserable in a sequel I’m struggling with at the moment.
1 – What is your villain’s main pet peeve?
Spiders.
2 – What is the most depraved thing your villain has ever done? (even if it’s not all that depraved)
Genocide.
3 – What is a redeeming quality your villain has? (if any)
They’ll pay anything they see as a debt.
4 – Does your villain think he’s evil?
Yes. (But not because of the answer to question 2.)
5 – What is your villain’s justification?
It’s for the children.
Sheesh! And here am I, not even sure there are villains in the mip (mess-in-progress).
Protags? Check.
Antagonists? Double Check.
So it would be among the Antags I’d need look for the villain(s)?
Love, C.
It’s true that villain is a pretty broad brush, and most writers work with a finer one (quite rightly). I’m not even sure the Khroi qualify as villains: they’re just people (I think they qualify as people) who will kill and eat Morlock and his friends (not in that order) if they get a chance.
The “kill AND eating of,” one’s friends would qualify for villain status, certainly!
Love, C.
Right! I will not tolerate people eating my friends, and I probably passed this personality quirk on to Morlock.
[ I will not tolerate people eating my friends, and I probably passed this personality quirk on to Morlock. ]
Some of us are so politically correct, all the time.
Talk about making the personal political!
🙂 😉
Love, C.