Since I’m still out of town and short on time, I’m doing reruns the next couple of days, highlighting some of my older posts. *** I am fascinated with villains. It fits in neatly with my love of psychological profiling. Villains are far more interesting on that front. I won’t say that I love them […]
I am supposed to be working on a scene with my villain today. Instead, I’m working with a real life villain in the form of the powerpoints with video that I’m trying to make into a DVD. I’m becoming an expert on free software for video file conversion, editing, merging, etc. FYI, PowerPoint does not […]
I’m having a fight with my villain at the moment. It’s one of those circumstances where I know his goal, his motivation, and his conflict. I know everything he does for the entire story and why he does it. I know the fall out and consequences from all those actions. But the bloody, stubborn man […]
As I was watching last week’s DVRed episode of Castle, I got to thinking about how one of the primary differences between suspense/thriller type mysteries and more classic whodunits is the type of antagonist. Suspense/thrillers seem to so often have serial killers or serial offenders of some type at their core. I won’t risk saying […]
In the midst of all the frantic work to write and put together my abnormal psych class the last 3 and a half weeks, I’ve been working as much as possible on the plotting front, and as I’ve already mentioned, Pot and I have been doing character interviews. Mostly I’ve focused on Marley and Conall, […]