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13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains: Workbook
Sacha Black’s book 13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains showed writers how to create their ultimate villain in an easy and humorous, step-by-step guide.
This workbook puts those lessons to use by building on each chapter in 13 Steps to Evil and guiding you through the development of your indisputable bad guy. It’s time to get to the core of your villain and supersize that evil.
Inside the workbook you’ll find hundreds of thought provoking questions, exercises and creativity boosting prompts. This resource will help you:
• Choose the perfect villain traits
• Create sinister character histories and motives
• Avoid pesky clichés
• Design conflict and tension that grips your reader
• Build your market knowledge so you create a villain that sells
Craft your characters through easy to digest exercises that empower you to conquer your villain for life.
This workbook puts those lessons to use by building on each chapter in 13 Steps to Evil and guiding you through the development of your indisputable bad guy. It’s time to get to the core of your villain and supersize that evil.
Inside the workbook you’ll find hundreds of thought provoking questions, exercises and creativity boosting prompts. This resource will help you:
• Choose the perfect villain traits
• Create sinister character histories and motives
• Avoid pesky clichés
• Design conflict and tension that grips your reader
• Build your market knowledge so you create a villain that sells
Craft your characters through easy to digest exercises that empower you to conquer your villain for life.
- GenresNonfiction
119 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 20, 2017
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Sacha Black
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Sacha Black is an author, rebel podcaster, and professional speaker.
She has five obsessions; words, expensive shoes, conspiracy theories, self-improvement, and breaking the rules.
Sacha writes books about people with magical powers and other books about the art of writing.
When she’s not writing, she can be found laughing inappropriately loud, sniffing musty old books, fangirling film and TV soundtracks, or thinking up new ways to break the rules.
She lives in Cambridgeshire, England, with her wife and genius, giant of a son.
https://sachablack.co.uk/newsletter
Sacha Black is an author, rebel podcaster, and professional speaker.
She has five obsessions; words, expensive shoes, conspiracy theories, self-improvement, and breaking the rules.
Sacha writes books about people with magical powers and other books about the art of writing.
When she’s not writing, she can be found laughing inappropriately loud, sniffing musty old books, fangirling film and TV soundtracks, or thinking up new ways to break the rules.
She lives in Cambridgeshire, England, with her wife and genius, giant of a son.
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October 23, 2017
A Workbook with Attitude!
This is a great companion to Black's writer's guide by the same name. The prompts she supplies tie in directly with her findings as she guides writers seeking a greater understanding of villainy toward personal and character growth. She incorporates both references to popular fiction (print & screen) to help jumpstart your muse, and pushes you to think about how and why your character acts/reacts the way they do. I found this to be an excellent step-by-step resource for writers who work best using prompts to flesh-out ideas and make them stronger. I was only slightly disappointed that much of the introductory text was taken directly from Black's writer's guide and not rephrased to help reiterate ideas in a slightly different way - but that's a personal preference.
This is a great companion to Black's writer's guide by the same name. The prompts she supplies tie in directly with her findings as she guides writers seeking a greater understanding of villainy toward personal and character growth. She incorporates both references to popular fiction (print & screen) to help jumpstart your muse, and pushes you to think about how and why your character acts/reacts the way they do. I found this to be an excellent step-by-step resource for writers who work best using prompts to flesh-out ideas and make them stronger. I was only slightly disappointed that much of the introductory text was taken directly from Black's writer's guide and not rephrased to help reiterate ideas in a slightly different way - but that's a personal preference.
October 8, 2017
This is a wonderful book to use for crafting those villains or other 'bad' characters that generally don't get given as much detail as the hero in most books.
It helps you look at these characters in a new light, craft and develop them in a way that will make them shine in your black light and give readers a chill as you develop them into something more cunning, devilish or just plain evil.
Definitely a must for all writers and authors who are looking to make their characters more interesting and relatable even when you wouldn't want to be associated with that character if you ever had the chance to meet them in person.
It helps you look at these characters in a new light, craft and develop them in a way that will make them shine in your black light and give readers a chill as you develop them into something more cunning, devilish or just plain evil.
Definitely a must for all writers and authors who are looking to make their characters more interesting and relatable even when you wouldn't want to be associated with that character if you ever had the chance to meet them in person.
February 10, 2021
Really great resource. I loved the villain interview in the back.
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