Creating a Villain: Let's Write a Story

Let's Write a Story

by Sue Viders, Becky Martinez

The key to creating a best-selling fiction book is often providing a memorable, unique villain—someone or something to cause hardships and conflict for the hero and heroine – a force to keep the plot moving.

This book can help you develop that perfect villain for your story. It illustrates the different types of villains and can help guide writers of any genre through the world of villains. From backstory to goals, it provides writers with ideas for creating an unforgettable villain. From the villain’s arc to helping create a love/hate relationship with the hero/heroine, this book can assist writers in developing an antagonist the reader can believe and fear.

From two published authors and writing coaches, this is the ultimate guide for any fiction writer who needs a bit of help creating a unique villain.

129 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 4, 2019

About the author

Sue Viders, with a B.F.A. degree, began writing in national art magazines to help artists market their creative endeavors, but then switched over to teaching writers, around the world, how to better organize and write more effectively so their books would sell better. Her most well-known nonfiction book often called the Bible of building characters, is THE COMPLETE WRITER'S GUIDE TO HEROES and HEROINES, SIXTEEN MASTER ARCHETYPES.

Approaching the big Nine 0, and having survived numerous bouts with cancer, and other interesting medical problems, along with raising five children and assisting her attorney husband with her typing skills, she is proud to present her essay book. It all started with her newspaper articles, which gradually morphed into the OUT-OF-THE-BOX ESSAY book, containing 44 short thought-provoking and humorous comments on life and living.

However, she also has other numerous nonfiction books, WRITING A NOVEL, CREATING A GREAT VILLAIN, and a card game, DEAL A STORY, THE WRITER'S TOOL BOX, for aspiring writers available with several more writing workbooks on the drawing board.