I believe that when writing fiction, if you create a character that is so vile that there is no reason to like that person, you need to make the reader care about that person more and add some dimension to the character, or you risk creating one dimensional characters. You do something to make the reader feel some empathy for him. A murderer, for example is easy to despise, but you'll maybe feel bad when he is either jailed or killed because he leaves an adorable child behind who loves his daddy and does not how evil he is. And, he also leaves behind a wife who is unable to care for this child and pay the rent, etc.
How do you make the reader connect with the evil ones in your stories so that they are not one dimensional beings which can be crushed like cockraches without a second thought? Or, do you like purely evil characters?
2006-06-18
06:48:11
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