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I love bad guys, especially when, at first, I don't know how bad they are.
Maybe I like a touch of mystery, or maybe I'm just one of those people who was born to learn not all people are good. My husband can spot a hustler a mile away. I've needed an empty wallet or bruise marks.
I character sketch my villains as thoroughly as any hero and heroine. He needs to be a worthy opponent who makes a happy life impossible for my main characters. Sidetrack the hero. Nearly seduce--or kill-- my heroine. Trigger emotional responses in me, and a reader.
Until he is completely and thoroughly exposed, ruined, and destroyed.
Justice, good, and love triumphs over evil.
Happily Ever After.
I can't say I've ever written a story that has a villian in it. But I do love to read stories where the villian gets it in the end.
ReplyDeleteI have bad people in some of my books, but I always think of bad people as men like Al Capone and killers of innocent people, but I know that isn't the only definition.
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