- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Premium Members $25 & Basic Members $35
Register by April 18th and save $5, use code BADGUYSRASLEY2022 at checkout!
- Category
- Characters
- Dialogue
- Plotting
- POV
- $5 off Early Registration Coupon-expires 1 week before class starts
- BADGUYSRASLEY2022
- Class Length
- 1 Week
Villains are a lot like heroes: They are active, powerful, dynamic, and capable of change. They're just, you know, bad. And you have to give your villains a little love to make them a worthy opponent for your actual heroic characters.
In this interactive workshop, we'll discuss a few techniques for making the most of your bad guys:
So if you've got a bad guy going up against your good guy, this workshop is for you!
In this interactive workshop, we'll discuss a few techniques for making the most of your bad guys:
- Humanize your villain first by getting to know him or her, especially the motivation.
- Find the vulnerability, what he's afraid of, what she's ashamed of.
- Show this character making moral choices, not just automatically doing the bad thing, but choosing to do that bad thing for "good" reasons (good according to their own measure, anyway!).
So if you've got a bad guy going up against your good guy, this workshop is for you!
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
